Noise: A Human History of Sound and Listening – A Cultural Chronicle from Ancient Oratory to Our Amplified Age
by David Hendy
In Noise, David Hendy offers a cultural history of sound and listening. Moving from ancient oratory to the amplified modern age, the book examines how people and societies have experienced, interpreted, and shaped the audible world around them.
About This Book
Noise explores the human history of sound and listening across time.
David Hendy follows changing attitudes toward noise, communication, and the audible world, beginning with ancient oratory and continuing into the modern era.
The book presents sound as a cultural subject, examining how societies have created, experienced, and understood their acoustic environments.
Spanning history and cultural commentary, it considers the place of noise in an increasingly amplified age.
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