NOISE: A Human History of Sound and Listening - Brossura

Hendy, David

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0062283081 ISBN 13: 9780062283085

Casa editrice: EccoPress, 2014

Riassunto

Tracing the story of humanity through sound, an acclaimed historian discusses how we have learned to communicate with, understand and live alongside our fellow beings and reveals how our lives are shaped by what we hear as well as by our need to be heard. 25,000 first printing.

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L'autore:

David Hendy is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Professor of Media and Communications at the University of Sussex. He has been a visiting research fellow at the University of Cambridge; Yale University; and Indiana University, Bloomington. He worked as a journalist and producer at the BBC, and in 2011 was awarded the James W. Carey Award for Outstanding Journalism by the Media Ecology Association of North America for his five-part BBC Radio 3 series, Rewiring the Mind. His book Life on Air: A History of Radio Four won the Longman-History Today Book of the Year Award.

Product Description:

Noise explores the human dramas that have revolved around sound at various points in the last 100,000 years, allowing us to think in fresh ways about the meaning of our collective past.

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• Editore: EccoPress
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0062283081
• ISBN 13: 9780062283085
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 400