Cultural Histories of Noise, Sound and Listening in Europe, 1... - 9781409444398

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Cultural Histories of Noise, Sound and Listening in Europe, 1300-1918Author(s): Kirsten Gibson, ian Biddle\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781409444398, 978-1409444398\nSynopsis\nCultural Histories of Noise, Sound and Listening in Europe, [tel] presents a range of historical case studies on the sounding worlds of the European past. The chapters in this volume explore ways of thinking about sound historically, and seek to understand how people have understood and negotiated their relationships with the sounding world in Europe from the Middle Ages through to the early twentieth century. They consider, in particular: sound and music in the later Middle Ages; the politics of sound in the early modern period; the history of the body and perception during the Ancien Rgime; and the sounds of the city in the nineteenth century and sound and colonial rule at the fin de sicle.\n\nThe case studies also range in geographical .