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'Mechanical Sound' traces efforts to control unwanted sound - the noise of industry, city traffic, gramophones and radios, and aircraft - from the late 19th to the late 20th century. Karin Bijsterveld argues that a paradox of control has developed, in which only some forms of noise are regulated by experts and governments.

Noise pollution. --- Sound --- Machinery --- Noise control. --- Noise music --- Social aspects --- History --- Noise. --- History and criticism. --- Acoustics --- Noise prevention --- Continuum mechanics --- Mathematical physics --- Physics --- Pneumatics --- Radiation --- Wave-motion, Theory of --- Pollution --- Rock music --- Acoustical engineering --- Environmental engineering --- Noise --- Noise music. --- SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General --- SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Technology --- ARCHITECTURE/Urban Design --- Music --- Pollution par le bruit --- Son --- Bruit, lutte contre le --- Aspect social