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A Cultural History of Sound, Memory, and the Senses book cover

1st Edition

A Cultural History of Sound, Memory, and the Senses

Edited By Joy Damousi, Paula Hamilton Copyright 2017
270 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

278 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

278 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The past 20 years have witnessed a turn towards the sensuous, particularly the aural, as a viable space for critical exploration in History and other Humanities disciplines. This has been informed by a heightened awareness of the role that the senses play in shaping modern identity and understanding of place; and increasingly, how the senses are central to the memory of past experiences and their... Read more

Introduction: Leaning In

[Joy Damousi and Paula Hamilton]

1. Sound Studies Today: Where Are We Going?

[Bruce Johnson]

Part I: Sound and Voice

2. "The World Wanderings of a Voice": Exhibiting the Cylinder Phonograph in Australasia

[Henry Reece]

3. "Are You Sitting Comfortably?": The Changing Position of Storytellers on Early Australian Radio

[Jennifer Bowen]

4. Lindbergh’s Voice

[David Goodman]

5. Noisy Classrooms and the "Quiet Corner": The Modern School, Sound and the Senses

[Kate Darian-Smith]

Part II: Sound and Violence

6. Throwing Down the Gauntlet: Voice, Power and Sexual Violence in Penal New South Wales

[Penny Russell]

7. Startling Reports: Gunfire as Social Soundscape in Early Colonial Australia

[Diane Collins]

8. Sounds and Silence of War: Dresden and Paris During World War II

[Joy Damousi]

9. Hearing the 1965–66 Indonesian Anti-Communist Repression: Sensory History and Its Possibilities

[Vannessa Hearman]

10. "For a Few Seconds, Imagine": An Aural Experience of Six Days of Terror at the Stadium of Chile, 12–17 September 1973

[Peter Read]

Part III: Sensory Memories

11. "Big Smoke Stacks": Competing Memories of the Sounds and Smells of Industrial Heritage

[Lisa Murray]

12. Intimate Strangers: Multisensorial Memories of Working in the Home

[Paula Hamilton]

13. Botanical Memory: Materiality, Affect, and Western Australian Plant Life

[John Charles Ryan]

14. "If I Ever Hear It, It Takes Me Straight Back There": Music, Autobiographical Memory, Space and Place

[Lauren Istvandity]

15. Seeing in Black and White: Visualising "Shadow Sisters" Among Metaphors of Light and Dark

[Emma Dortins]

Biography

Joy Damousi is Professor of History at the University of Melbourne.

Paula Hamilton is adjunct Professor of History at University of Technology, Sydney.

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