Mechanical Sound (Karin Bijsterveld).pdf

Mechanical Sound

INSIDE TECHNOLOGY

edited by Wiebe E. Bijker, W. Bernard Carlson, and Trevor Pinch

A list of books in the series appears on page 315.

Mechanical Sound

Technology, Culture, and Public Problems of Noise

in the Twentieth Century

Karin Bijsterveld

The MIT Press

Cambridge, Massachusetts

London, England

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bijsterveld, Karin, 1961–

Mechanical sound : technology, culture, and public problems of noise in the twentieth

century / Karin Bijsterveld

p. cm. —(Insidetechnology)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-262-02639-0 (hardcover : alk. paper)

1. Noise pollution. 2. Sound—Social aspects—History—20th century. 3. Machinery—

Noise. 4. Noise control. 5. Noise music. I. Title.

TD892.B5482008

620.2—dc22

2007037600

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