Why Historians of the Auditory Urban Past Might Consider Getting Their Ears Wet

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Editorial Board 2
3. Sound Studies 3
4. Contents 6
5. Introduction 11
6. Shifting Sounds 31
7. Why Historians of the Auditory Urban Past Might Consider Getting Their Ears Wet 67
8. Sounds Familiar 77
9. The Chirping of a Little Bird 117
10. Sonic Artefacts 129
11. Radio Documentary and the Formation of Urban Aesthetics 169
12. Soundscape, Landscape, Escape 181
13. The Corporeality of Listening 195
14. The Eleventh of the Eleventh of the Eleventh 209
15. Authors 221
16. List of Illustrations 227