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Smith, B. R. (2004). Listening to the wild blue yonder: The challenges of acoustic ecology. In V. Erlmann (Ed.), Hearing Cultures: Essays on Sound Listening and Modernity (pp. 21–41). Oxford: Berg. Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard (12/20/07, 5:16 PM) |
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| Resource type: Book Chapter BibTeX citation key: Smith2004 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Acoustic ecology, Noise, Society Creators: Erlmann, Smith Publisher: Berg (Oxford) Collection: Hearing Cultures: Essays on Sound Listening and Modernity |
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A description of the author's method of investigating the sounds of early modern England.
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p.33
"The written word in early modern England still carried the bodily force of the spoken word. For us, written words are symbols, arbitrary signs of the things signified. For Shakespeare's contemporaries, I would argue, written words functioned as indices, as signs carrying a bodily, metonymic connection with the things being signified."
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Keywords: Semiotics Soundscape |
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p.35
Nonverbal sounds "marked the boundary between civility and barbarity."
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Keywords: Noise |
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pp.24–33
Presents evidence that readers in the early modern age (c.1600) would have heard sounds in texts (handwriting, woodcuts and print). Levels and different types of literacy, contemporary witnesses (e.g. Erasmus), didactic books encouraging new writers to pronounce the phonemes as they are written. This is not the case for the modern reader.
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Keywords: Onomatopoeia |
| p.35 Describes different syntaxes of sound in early modern England: country (more nonverbal sounds), court (highly logocentric) and city (inbetween). Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard |