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Book Review


The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900–1933. By Emily Thompson. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002. x, 500 pp. $44.95, ISBN 0-262-20138-0.)

Emily Thompson, an architectural historian, has written what is surely one of the best works on the development of the modern soundscape. She takes as her point of departure the many recent histories that uncover what the past may have sounded like (particularly Alain Corbin's 1998 Village Bells), yet her approach, which emphasizes architecture, is quite different. In The Soundscape of Modernity, it is not the sounds themselves or their roles in society that need recovering, but the ways in which they were shaped or created. . . .
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