booklist from Douglas Kahn

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Here's a list of recent books on sound from a cultural history/theory angle.


Sound States: Innovative Poetics and Acoustical Technologies, edited by
Adalaide Morris (University of North Carolina Press, 1997)

Alain Corbin, Village Bells: Sound and Meaning in the 19th-Century French
Countryside (Papermac, 1999)

Bruce R. Smith, The Acoustic World of Early Modern England: Attending the
O-Factor (University of Chicago: 1999)

Jonathan Rée, I See a Voice: Language, Deafness and the Senses-A
Philosophical History (Harper Collins, 1999)

Douglas Kahn, Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts (MIT
Press, 1999).



And not so recent:
R. Murray Schafer, The Tuning of the World (1977)

Steven Feld, Sound and Sentiment (1982)

Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio and the Avant-garde (1992), edited by
Gregory Whitehead and Douglas Kahn

James H. Johnson, Listening in Paris (1995)

For film sound see books by Michel Chion, Rick Altman, Kaja Silverman, and
Elisabeth Weis/John Belton.
For philosophy see books by Don Idhe, David Michael Levin, Michel Serres,
Giorgio Agamden and Gemma Corradi-Fiumara.



Books to appear in the near future:
Steven Connor, A Cultural History of Ventriloquism  (Oxford, 2000)

Leigh Schmidt, Hearing Things: The Mystic's Ear and the Voices of Reason
(Harvard, 2000)

Emily Thompson, The Soundscape of Modernity: The Architectural Acoustics
and Aural Culture in America, 1900-1933 (probably MIT, 2001)

Mark M. Smith, Aural Worlds: Listening to Sound, Noise, Section and Class
in Nineteenth Century America (University of North Carolina, prob. 2001)