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| #1183264 in Books | Cornell University Press | 2005-10-20 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.20 x6.00l,.73 | File type: PDF | 240 pages | ||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| An Uneven Venture into Sounds Past|By Dr. Debra Jan Bibel|I initially thought that this would be a worthy companion to A. Roger Ekirch's book "At Day's Close. Night in times past"-- and indeed it seemed to parallel the approach in the first sections -- but author and rock musician Rath had other objectives. By repeatedly shifting the focus, though all related to sound, his book|From Publishers Weekly|In contrast to the modern world, which is ruled by such visual inputs as newspapers, television and traffic signs, early America was a sound-oriented society, according to this engaging and original academic study. Colonists in the 17th ce
"My hope is that by attending to sound I have been able to open up parts of these worlds, not to get a glimpse of them but to listen in. These were worlds much more alive with sound than our own, worlds not yet disenchanted, worlds perhaps even chanted into being."―from the IntroductionIn early America, every sound had a living, willful force at its source. Sometimes these forces were not human or even visible. In this fascinating and highly original work of cultural h...
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