[ecrea] new book: The Age of Noise in Britain

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*The Age of Noise in Britain***

*Hearing Modernity***

/James G Mansell/

"James Mansell's remarkably clear, wonderfully detailed, even 
occasionally droll examination of the sensing self in industrial 
modernity makes a substantial, important contribution to historical 
sound studies and British studies."--John M. Picker, author of 
/Victorian Soundscapes/

    "Mansell has given us an exhilarating and highly original way of 
understanding early twentieth century Britain. He ranges confidently 
across a dazzlingly wide terrain--attitudes towards neurasthenia, the 
occult thinking of Theosophists, technocrats designing quieter homes, 
those aghast at the sonic assaults of the wartime Blitz--and shows how 
noise was more than a symbol of modern life or the bane of the 
highly-strung. It was regarded by a whole gamut of experts and 
pseudo-experts as an irritating, mysterious, troubling force 
dramatically reshaping the relationship between the individual and 
society. /The Age of Noise in Britain/ allows us to eavesdrop on this 
loud and disputatious period--indeed, to question our understanding of 
modernity itself. It is unsettling in the very best of ways."--David 
Hendy, author of /Noise: A Human History of Sound and Listening/

     Sound transformed British life in the "age of noise" between 1914 
and 1945. The sonic maelstrom of mechanized society bred anger and 
anxiety and even led observers to forecast the end of civilization. The 
noise was, as James G. Mansell shows, modernity itself, expressed in 
aural form, with immense implications for the construction of the self. 
Tracing the ideas, feelings, and representations prompted by life in 
early twentieth century Britain, Mansell examines how and why sound 
shaped the self. He works at the crux of cultural and intellectual 
history, analyzing the meanings that were attached to different types of 
sound, who created these typologies and why, and how these meanings 
connected to debates about modernity. From traffic noise to air raids, 
everyday sounds elicited new ways of thinking about being modern. Each 
individual negotiated his or her own subjective meanings through hopes 
or fears for sound. As Mansell considers the different ways Britons 
heard their world, he reveals why we must take sound into account in our 
studies of cultural and social history.

*James G. Mansell* is an assistant professor of cultural studies at the 
University of Nottingham

University of Illinois Press

Studies in Sensory History

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