Antropologicheskij forum, 2015, no. 26

A Review of DANIEL MORAT (ed.), SOUNDS OF MODERN HISTORY: AUDITORY CULTURES IN 19th- AND 20th-CENTURY EUROPE. New York: Berghahn Books, 2014, 352 pp.

Andrey Vozyanov

Regensburg University, Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung (Institute for East and Southeast European Studies)
4 Landshuter Str., Regensburg, Germany
avozyanov()gmail.com

Abstract: The collective monograph Sounds of Modern History (ed. by Daniel Morat) is one of the first compilations of texts investigating auditory cultures in historical perspective. Focusing on the period of modernity, it embraces topics such as the development of technologies for recording and remote transmission of sound, changing sound environments of urban life, and the social performance of civil and martial soundscapes of World Wars. Practically all of the chapters approach the evolution of cultural habits of listening and hearing, and sonic perception and signification, in order to place the sound in the formation of modern sensitivity. The review aims to provide a brief outline of the main findings and statements of the book chapters.

Keywords: sound studies, history of senses, soundscapes, anthropology of perception, listening cultures, modernity.

To cite: Vozyanov A., 'A Review of Daniel Morat (ed.), Sounds of Modern History: Auditory Cultures in 19th- and 20th-century Europe. New York: Berghahn Books, 2014, 352 pp.', Antropologicheskij forum, 2015, no. 26, pp. 285–292.

URL: http://anthropologie.kunstkamera.ru/files/pdf/026/vozyanov.pdf