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Noise explores the human dramas that have revolved around sound at various points in the last 100,000 years, allowing us to think in fresh ways about the meaning of our collective past.
- Sales Rank: #640651 in Books
- Published on: 2014-08-26
- Released on: 2014-08-26
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .61" w x 5.31" l, .65 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 272 pages
About the Author
David Hendy is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Professor of Media and Communications at the University of Sussex. He has been a visiting research fellow at the University of Cambridge; Yale University; and Indiana University, Bloomington. He worked as a journalist and producer at the BBC, and in 2011 was awarded the James W. Carey Award for Outstanding Journalism by the Media Ecology Association of North America for his five-part BBC Radio 3 series, Rewiring the Mind. His book Life on Air: A History of Radio Four won the Longman-History Today Book of the Year Award.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Not much of a noise
By toronto
This is an ok book, but nothing special. It is based on a British Radio Four series, which may have been more interesting. There are a number of interesting anecdotes and facts, but overall it is quite superficial. There is nothing here about animals or the natural world, only humans. It isn't really about "sound" versus "noise", or foundational discussions of the nature of sound, hearing, etc. -- chapters are more or less catch alls about topics like rhetoric in the ancient world, songs of the French Revolution, the back staircases in the Old Town of Edinburgh, etc. Sound is an excuse to discuss these topics. The most interesting chapters are the first and second about prehistoric humans and cave sounds and burial sites (the echoes as spirit evokers). The last chapters are, as one might expect, on the increases in noise in the modern era, but there is really nothing about (for instance) Murray Schafer's views on low and hi fi or Marshall Mcluhan/Edmund Carpenter on changes in acoustic space. He does mention Bernie Krause's work.
The author actually doesn't seem to mind the proliferation of noise/sound all that much: he has a vague exhortation in the conclusion to us to stop being elitist, stop hiding out in quiet places, put down our reading (not including his book, I guess), and listen to the iPod of the person driving us crazy beside us on the bus or to the blasts from the rooms of the annoying neighbour next door -- our problem (according to him) is not that the world is getting too noisy, but that we are prejudiced against uncontrolled sounds bleeding into our ears from all around us. I'm not making this up.
Anyway, every once in a while there is just an error (the index has problems, e.g. the not very interesting reference to John Cage is misindexed); and in one place there is a discussion of the confessional in the middle ages, when it is reasonably well known that the confessional as we know it is a 16th century invention.
The book is well written, amusing in spots, but overall disappointing.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
A gift for persons (like me) with little understanding of the importance of hearing and listening
By Walter E. Workman
I ordered this looking for help in dealing with age related hearing loss and listening imparement. WOW! I started reading when it arrived and could not put it down. A page turner, filled with wonderful research and history, and insights about "noise" that never occured to me. I'm giving copies of this to a number of close friends as Christmas Gifts!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
The history of noise, the anthropology of ghosts and other illusive things
By VampireCowboy
Writing about the history of noise is like mapping the afterlife or studying the anthropology of ghosts, entirely speculative and seeking to impose a sense of order on the random, and a sense of the physical on the purely ethereal. It is also entirely dependent upon how one chooses to define noise. To me, noise seems unintentional, a byproduct; the author uses a much broader definition that includes intentional noise-making such as music, chanting, prayer, church bells and more. As such, the book might more aptly be called “Sound.”
That broad-brush approach coupled with a narrow (but fascinating) field of examples to illustrate our shared experience with noise may explain my mixed response to the book. I enjoyed it, but it was not at all what I expected, which was an exploration of how we define, process and interact with noise, possibly with neurologic and biologic insights into how it shapes individual and social responses. Instead, the book takes more of a generalist approach, with the author discussing various stages in social evolution and how those humans might have experienced and interacted with certain sounds, and the power dynamics of those who generate noise, those who receive it, and efforts to control both sides of that equation.
It’s an interesting, but understandably subjective approach that moves from the earliest days of pre-literate society, through the Industrial Revolution and ends in the current era of earbuds and YouTube and constant stimulation. It’s filled with some truly memorable moments of discovery (such as how Neolithic paintings in caves occur the most in areas with the highest sonic interest, for example), but the heavy reliance on “surely,” “perhaps,” “maybe” and “it’s likely,” made it maddeningly speculative.
Still, he is a talented writer and a topnotch historian. I was struck most by the care he brought to the epilogue in sections such as this: “If noise is, as most definitions would have it, an ‘unwanted’ sound, then to understand its impact on lived experience properly, we need to work out who exactly considered a given sound as wanted and who exactly considered it unwanted in any particular time and place – and why … the answer to these questions seems to keep coming back to a potent mix of three interwoven things: power, control and anxiety.
That’s a powerful thesis introduced only at the end and I would have loved to have seen this more explicitly "sounded" out from the beginning. Still, I enjoyed the read and even purchased a Tibetan singing bowl after reading the section about the religious application of sounds, specifically bells, to experience it firsthand.
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