General resources
Section outline
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Jonathan Sterne, The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction (2002). [621.3/893 STE]
Daniel Morat, ed., Sounds of Modern History: Auditory Cultures in 19th- and 20th-Century Europe (2014). [306.09/4 MOR]
Tim Blanning, The Triumph of Music: The Rise of Composers, Musicians and Their Art (2008). [306.4/8409/4 BLA]
Sven Oliver Müller and Jürgen Osterhammel, "Geschichtswissenschaft und Musik," Geschichte und Gesellschaft38 (2012): 5-20.
Emily Thompson, The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933 (2004).Trevor Pinch and Karin Bijsterveld, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies (2012). [621.3/893 PIN]A collection of texts on the history of acoustics and music listening (ECHO)Visit the Recorded Sound Research Center at the U.S. Library of Congress, especially the collection of early motion pictures and sound recordings.