现代性的声景:声音、现代性和历史

The Soundscape of Modernity:Sound,Modernity,and History

在这部20世纪初美国听觉文化史中,艾米莉·汤普森描绘了人们所听内容和聆听方式的巨大转变。20世纪初,人们听到了一种新的声音,这种声音是现代技术的产物。聆听者也成为听觉商品的新兴批判消费者。作者研究了产生这种声音的技术和围绕它产生的消费文化,重提了机器时代,加深了我们对19世纪到20世纪之交的时代变革经验的理解。通过聆听,汤普森构建了一种令人信服的围绕美国现代性经验的新叙事。

In this history of aural culture in early-twentieth-century America,Emily Thompson charts dramatic transformations in what people heard and how they listened.What they heard was a new kind of sound that was the product of modern technology.They listened as newly critical consumers of aural commodities.By examining the technologies that produced this sound,as well as the culture that enthusiastically consumed it,Thompson recovers a lost dimension of the Machine Age and deepens our understanding of the experience of change that characterized the era.By listening to it,Thompson constructs a compelling new account of the experience of modernity in America.