Sonic Modernity - (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture) by Sam Halliday (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>In this thoughtful and engaging study, Sam Halliday reveals the many roles and forms of sound in modernism. </p> <p></p> <p>Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. </p> <p></p> <p>Figures discussed include canonical writers such as Joyce, Richardson, and Woolf; relatively neglected writers such as Henry Roth and Bryher; and a whole host of musicians, artists, and other commentators, including Wagner, Schoenberg, Kandinsky, Adorno, and Benjamin. Conceptually as well as topically diverse, the book engages issues such as city noise and 'foreign' accents, representations of sound in 'silent' cinema, the relationship of music to language, and the effects of technology on sonic production and reception.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>'Conceptually expansive and revealingly oxymoronic, Sam Halliday's exploration of the effect of technological development on modernism's relationship with sound is thorough and illuminating.'--Serena Gosden "TLS "<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Sam Halliday teaches in the Department of English at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity (2007).<p>
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