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‘A Chamber of Noise Horrors’: sound, technology and the museum

Mansell, James

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This article examines the 1935 Science Museum temporary exhibition on Noise Abatement, situating it in the sound historical context of inter-war Britain, and making an argument that the ‘way of hearing’ it advanced was part of an attempt to shape auditory perception in the interests of a class-bound culture of acoustic civilization. Further, the article uses this exhibition to mount an argument that museum scholars should consider sound not simply as a medium of engagement, but also as a politically interested and socially active field.

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Mansell, J. (2017). ‘A Chamber of Noise Horrors’: sound, technology and the museum. Science Museum Group Journal, 7(7), https://doi.org/10.15180/170704

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Feb 10, 2017
Online Publication Date Mar 15, 2017
Publication Date Apr 20, 2017
Deposit Date Nov 19, 2017
Publicly Available Date Dec 18, 2018
Print ISSN 2054-5770
Publisher Science Museum Group
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 7
Issue 7
DOI https://doi.org/10.15180/170704
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1120839
Publisher URL http://journal.sciencemuseum.org.uk/browse/issue-07/chamber-of-noise-horrors/
Contract Date Nov 29, 2018

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