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Sonic Persuasion: Reading Sound in the Recorded Age
Greg Goodale
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Description for Sonic Persuasion: Reading Sound in the Recorded Age
Hardback. How to interpret identity, culture, and history in sound Series: Studies in Sensory History. Num Pages: 208 pages, 11 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: GTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. .
Sonic Persuasion: Reading Sound in the Recorded Age critically analyzes a range of sounds on vocal and musical recordings, on the radio, in film, and in cartoons to show how sounds are used to persuade in subtle ways. Greg Goodale explains how and to what effect sounds can be "read" like an aural text, demonstrating this method by examining important audio cues such as dialect, pausing, and accent in presidential recordings at the turn of the twentieth century. Goodale also shows how clocks, locomotives, and machinery are utilized in film and literature to represent frustration and anxiety about modernity, and ... Read more
Sonic Persuasion: Reading Sound in the Recorded Age critically analyzes a range of sounds on vocal and musical recordings, on the radio, in film, and in cartoons to show how sounds are used to persuade in subtle ways. Greg Goodale explains how and to what effect sounds can be "read" like an aural text, demonstrating this method by examining important audio cues such as dialect, pausing, and accent in presidential recordings at the turn of the twentieth century. Goodale also shows how clocks, locomotives, and machinery are utilized in film and literature to represent frustration and anxiety about modernity, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Sensory History
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252036040
SKU
V9780252036040
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About Greg Goodale
Greg Goodale is assistant professor of communication studies at Northeastern University and the coeditor of Arguments About Animal Ethics.
Reviews for Sonic Persuasion: Reading Sound in the Recorded Age
"Compelling and imaginative case studies
air-raid sirens, Warner Brothers cartoons, and clocks
ground this sonic investigation, but just as important is Goodale's work in interpreting sounds as opposed to merely placing them in a larger historical narrative. A major contribution to the study of music, communications, sound, and rhetoric."
John M. Picker, author of Victorian Soundscapes "An important book."
IEEE Technology and Society Magazine ... Read more
air-raid sirens, Warner Brothers cartoons, and clocks
ground this sonic investigation, but just as important is Goodale's work in interpreting sounds as opposed to merely placing them in a larger historical narrative. A major contribution to the study of music, communications, sound, and rhetoric."
John M. Picker, author of Victorian Soundscapes "An important book."
IEEE Technology and Society Magazine ... Read more