TY  - BOOK
AU  - Damousi, Joy
AU  - Deacon, Desley
AB  - Historians have, until recently, been silent about sound. This collection of essays on talking and listening in the age of modernity brings together major Australian scholars who have followed Alain Corbin’s injunction that historians ‘can no longer afford to neglect materials pertaining to auditory perception’. Ranging from the sound of gunfire on the Australian gold-fields to Alfred Deakin’s virile oratory, these essays argue for the influence of the auditory in forming individual and collective subjectivities; the place of speech in understanding individual and collective endeavours; the centrality of speech in marking and negating difference and in struggles for power; and the significance of the technologies of radio and film in forming modern cultural identities.
DO  - 10.26530/OAPEN_459756
ID  - OAPEN ID: 459756
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1166437002
KW  - australia
KW  - social aspects
KW  - history
KW  - sounds
KW  - oral communication
KW  - Elocution
KW  - Modernity
KW  - Sound film
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/d8f2d50b-51ae-40cf-8e0c-da7977bb3a0d/459756.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33601
PB  - ANU Press
PP  - Canberra
PY  - 2007
TI  - Talking and Listening edited : Essays on the history of sound
ER  - 
