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Pages: 392
Authors: Mark Michael Smith
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Arguing for the importance of the aural dimension of history, Mark M. Smith contends that to understand what it meant to be northern or southern, slave or free-
Listening to Nineteenth-Century America
Language: en
Pages: 392
Authors: Mark M. Smith
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-12-01 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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Arguing for the importance of the aural dimension of history, Mark M. Smith contends that to understand what it meant to be northern or southern, slave or free-
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Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Ana María Ochoa Gautier
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-02-20 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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In this audacious book, Ana María Ochoa Gautier explores how listening has been central to the production of notions of language, music, voice, and sound that
Hearing History
Language: en
Pages: 444
Authors: Mark Michael Smith
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press

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Hearing History is a long-needed introduction to the basic tenets of what is variously termed historical acoustemology, auditory culture, or aural history. Gath
How Early America Sounded
Language: en
Pages: 244
Authors: Richard Cullen Rath
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In early America, every sound had a living, wilful force at its source - sometimes these forces were not human or even visible. The author recreates in detail a