The Age of Noise in Britain: Hearing Modernity by James G. Mansell

The Age of Noise in Britain: Hearing Modernity

James G. Mansell

246 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

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Sound transformed British life in the "age of noise" between 1914 and 1945. The sonic maelstrom of mechanized society bred anger and anxiety and even led observers to forecast the end of civilization. The noise was, as James G. Mansell shows, mode...

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