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Victorian SoundscapesVictorian Soundscapes by John M. Picker
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scholarly investigation into 19th C. England literature, science and technology
The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound ReproductionThe Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction by Jonathan Sterne
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see my editorial review under "from the publisher"
Listening to Nineteenth-Century AmericaListening to Nineteenth-Century America by Mark M. Smith
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the sounds of slavery, the civil war, the political rhetoric of North and South
The Auditory Culture Reader (Sensory Formations)The Auditory Culture Reader (Sensory Formations)
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the first of several readers to appear on the subject in the next few years
The Acoustic World of Early Modern England: Attending to the O-FactorThe Acoustic World of Early Modern England: Attending to the O-Factor by Bruce R. Smith
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sounds and voices during the time of Shakespeare
The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933 by Emily Thompson
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indespensible: groundbreaking book on the history of acoustical architecture, technologies and science
How Early America SoundedHow Early America Sounded by Richard Cullen Rath
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a new addition to the understanding of sound in American auditory culture
Sound States: Innovative Poetics and Acoustical TechnologiesSound States: Innovative Poetics and Acoustical Technologies by Adalaide (ed.) Morris
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Gramophone, Film, Typewriter (Writing Science)Gramophone, Film, Typewriter (Writing Science) by Friedrich Kittler
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Ezra Pound's Radio Operas: The BBC Experiments, 1931¿1933Ezra Pound's Radio Operas: The BBC Experiments, 1931¿1933 by Margaret Fisher
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scholarly unearthing of Pound's radiophonic works
Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the ArtsNoise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts by Douglas Kahn
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retailing my own wares
Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio, and the Avant-GardeWireless Imagination: Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde by Histories of Sound Once Removed
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Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression (Conduct and Communication)Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression (Conduct and Communication) by Steven Feld
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a classic in the field
Noise: The Political Economy of Music (Theory and  History of Literature)Noise: The Political Economy of Music (Theory and History of Literature) by Jacques Attali
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provocative but thesis of music as fortune teller of history is a fiction
The SoundscapeThe Soundscape by R. Murray Schafer
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formerly known as The Tuning of the World, an influential product of the 60s
Music, Science, and Natural Magic in Seventeenth-Century EnglandMusic, Science, and Natural Magic in Seventeenth-Century England by Dr. Penelope Gouk
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music and acoustics in natural magic
Experimental Sound and RadioExperimental Sound and Radio
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Village BellsVillage Bells by Alain Corbin
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written by the French historian of the senses
Sounding Out the City: Personal Stereos and the Management of Everyday Life (Materializing Culture)Sounding Out the City: Personal Stereos and the Management of Everyday Life (Materializing Culture) by Michael Bull
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Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity: Studies of Verbal HallucinationsVoices of Reason, Voices of Insanity: Studies of Verbal Hallucinations by Ivan Leuder
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Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of VentriloquismDumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism by Steven Connor
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the topic is much more relevant than you think
Hearing Things: Religion, Illusion, and the American EnlightenmentHearing Things: Religion, Illusion, and the American Enlightenment by Leigh Eric Schmidt
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like Connor's book, scholarly and fascinating
The Mechanical Song: Women, Voice, and the Artificial in Nineteenth-Century French NarrativeThe Mechanical Song: Women, Voice, and the Artificial in Nineteenth-Century French Narrative by Felicia Miller-Frank
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Listening in Paris: A Cultural History (Studies on the History of Society and Culture)Listening in Paris: A Cultural History (Studies on the History of Society and Culture) by James H. Johnson
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The Sound of Shakespeare (Accents on Shakespeare)The Sound of Shakespeare (Accents on Shakespeare) by Wes Folkerth
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read with Bruce Smith's book