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How early America sounded
- Title
- How early America sounded / Richard Cullen Rath.
- Author
- Rath, Richard Cullen.
- Publication
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2003.
- Supplementary Content
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | IDS 04-935 | Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 |
Details
- Description
- xi, 227 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "In 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 history, Richard Cullen Rath re-creates in rich detail a world remote from our own, one in which sounds were charged with meaning and power." "This book's stunning evidence of the importance of sound in early America - even among the highly literate New England Puritans - reminds us of a time before a world dominated by the visual, a young country where hearing was a more crucial part of living."--Jacket.
- Subjects
- United States
- Voice > Social aspects
- United States > Social conditions > To 1865
- United States > Social life and customs > To 1775
- Listening > Social aspects > United States > History
- Hearing > Social aspects > United States > History
- History
- Voice > Social aspects > United States > History
- Manners and customs
- Sound > Social aspects > United States > History
- Social conditions
- To 1865
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-218) and index.
- Contents
- Those thunders, those roarings : the natural soundscape -- From the sounds of things -- No corner for the Devil to hide -- On the rant -- The howling wilderness.
- Call Number
- IDS 04-935
- ISBN
- 0801441269
- 9780801441264
- 9780801472725
- 0801472725
- LCCN
- 2003019789
- OCLC
- 53013074
- Author
- Rath, Richard Cullen.
- Title
- How early America sounded / Richard Cullen Rath.
- Imprint
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2003.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-218) and index.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
- To 1865
- Research Call Number
- IDS 04-935