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Making noise : from Babel to the big bang & beyond
- Title
- Making noise : from Babel to the big bang & beyond / Hillel Schwartz.
- Author
- Schwartz, Hillel, 1948-
- Publication
- Brooklyn, NY : Zone Books ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by MIT Press, 2011.
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Details
- Description
- 912 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Drawing upon such diverse sources as the archives of antinoise activists and radio advertisers, catalogs of fireworks and dental drills, and daybooks of physicists, travel diaries and civil defense pamphlets, Schwartz traces the process by which noise today has become as powerfully metaphorical as the original Babel.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- 其他题名:From Babel to the Big Bang and Beyond.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Bang (a beginning) -- Round one : everywhere -- Round two : everywhen, everyone, Round three : everyhow -- Endnotes -- Soundplates, in fine -- Reverb/Index.
- Call Number
- *LE 18-6781
- ISBN
- 9781935408123
- 1935408127
- LCCN
- 2011014433
- OCLC
- 719429216
- Author
- Schwartz, Hillel, 1948-
- Title
- Making noise : from Babel to the big bang & beyond / Hillel Schwartz.
- Imprint
- Brooklyn, NY : Zone Books ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by MIT Press, 2011.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- *LE 18-6781