Mechanical sound : technology, culture, and public problems of noise in the twentieth century / Karin Bijsterveld.

'Mechanical Sound' traces efforts to control unwanted sound - the noise of industry, city traffic, gramophones and radios, and aircraft - from the late 19th to the late 20th century. Karin Bijsterveld argues that a paradox of control has developed, in which only some forms of noise are reg...

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Main Author: Bijsterveld, Karin, 1961-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008.
Series:Inside technology.
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