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ISBN 10: 1921313471

ISBN 13: 978-1921313479 

Author: Joy Damousi, Desley Deacon

Historians have, until recently, been silent about sound. This collection of essays on talking and listening in the age of modernity brings together major Australian scholars who have followed Alain Corbin’s injunction that historians ‘can no longer afford to neglect materials pertaining to auditory perception’. Ranging from the sound of gunfire on the Australian gold-fields to Alfred Deakin’s virile oratory, these essays argue for the influence of the auditory in forming individual and collective subjectivities; the place of speech in understanding individual and collective endeavours; the centrality of speech in marking and negating difference and in struggles for power; and the significance of the technologies of radio and film in forming modern cultural identities.

Table of contents:

1. Introduction

2. Listening to the Australian goldfields

3. Cities, technologies and sound in jazz-age Europe

4. Speech, Children and the Federation Movement

5. Oratory and the fantasy of male power

6. Elocution and the Art of Recitation

7. World English? How an Australian Invented Good American Speech

8. Australian character and accent 1920s–1940s

9. Towards a History of the Australian Accent

10. Voice, Power and Modernity

11. Modernity, Intimacy and Early Australian Commercial Radio

12. Projecting new possibilities of modernity in the Australian cinema 1929–1933

13. Authors

14. Index

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