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Post Subject: Lecture on history of architectural acousticsPosted by Nicanor on: 4/13/2010
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Long time reader first time poster. Forgive me if this is not exactly the right area of the site to post in. My brother sent me this lecture from MIT on "The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933". I have found it thought provoking so far, so I have decided to submit to everyone here at good sound club.
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/19
"In this history of aural culture in
early-twentieth-century America, Emily Thompson charts dramatic
transformations in what people heard and how they listened. What they
heard was a new kind of sound that was the product of modern technology.
They listened as newly critical consumers of aural commodities. By
examining the technologies that produced this sound, as well as the
culture that enthusiastically consumed it, Thompson recovers a lost
dimension of the Machine Age and deepens our understanding of the
experience of change that characterized the era."
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