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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.
Physics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Acoustics & Sound --- Oral communication --- Auditory perception --- Social aspects --- Sound perception --- Oral transmission --- Speech communication --- Verbal communication --- Hearing --- Perception --- Word deafness --- Communication
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Australian lives are intricately enmeshed with the world, bound by ties of allegiance and affinity, intellect and imagination. In Transnational Ties: Australian Lives in the World, an eclectic mix of scholars—historians, literary critics, and museologists—trace the flow of people that helped shape Australia’s distinctive character and the flow of ideas that connected Australians to a global community of thought. It shows how biography, and the study of life stories, can contribute greatly to our understanding of such patterns of connection and explores how transnationalism can test biography’s limits as an intellectual, professional and commercial practice.
Gender & Ethnic Studies --- Social Sciences --- Ethnic & Race Studies --- Ethnology --- Cosmopolitanism --- Political science --- Internationalism --- Australia --- cosmopolitanism --- australia --- ethnology --- internationalism --- biography --- Sydney
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