The unwanted sound of everything we want : a book about noise / Garret Keizer.

The unwanted sound of everything we want : a book about noise / Garret Keizer.

Noise is usually defined as unwanted sound: loud music from a neighbor, the honk of a taxicab, the roar of a supersonic jet. But as Garret Keizer illustrates in this probing examination, noise is as much about what we want as about what we seek to avoid. It has been a byproduct of human striving sin...

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Online Access: Full text (Emerson users only)
Main Author: Keizer, Garret
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : PublicAffairs, ©2010.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Noise > Psychological aspects.
Sound > Psychological aspects.
Human information processing.
Noise.
Sound.
Mental Processes
Noise
Sound
noise.
sound (acoustics)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Noise is interested in you
  • The unwanted sound of everything we want
  • The noise of political animals
  • What the Python said: prehistory to the eve of the industrial age
  • What Laura heard: the industrial age to the present
  • Their world too: noise today
  • Loud America
  • Sustainability and celebration
  • The most beautiful sound in the world.

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