From Babel to the Big Bang & Beyond
by Hillel Schwartz
- Author(s)
- Hillel Schwartz
- Publication
- New York : Zone Books, 2011
- Scope
- 912 Pages, illustrated, 24 cm.
- ISBN
- 9781935408123
Drawing upon such diverse sources as the archives of anti noise activists and radio advertisers, catalogs of fireworks and dental drills, letters and daybooks of physicists and physicians, military manuals and training films, travel diaries and civil defense pamphlets, as well as museum collections of bells, ear trumpets, megaphones, sirens, stethoscopes, and street organs, Schwartz traces the process by which noise today has become as powerfully metaphorical as the original Babel. At every stage, readers of this book can hear the cultural reverberations of the historical soundwork of actresses, admen, anthropologists, astronomers, builders, composers, dentists, economists, engineers, filmmakers, firemen, grammar sc/ool teachers, jailers, nurses, oceanographers, pastors, philosophers, poets, psychologists, and the writers of children’s books.
- Keywords
- sound art , hearing , noise
- Location
- Cabinet 11 - 1: Geluid ; kunst
- Remarks
- Incl. bibliographical references and Index.
