Outputs (19)

Enchanted Modernities: Theosophy, the Arts and the American West (2019)
Book
MANSELL, J., SCHEER, C., & TURNER, S. (2019). Enchanted Modernities: Theosophy, the Arts and the American West. Fulgur

"It is in America that the transformation will take place, and has already silently commenced" – MADAME BLAVATSKY

With these words, written in The Secret Doctrine in 1888, Helena Blavatsky drew a direct connection to the dynamic energy of nineteen... Read More about Enchanted Modernities: Theosophy, the Arts and the American West.

Ways of hearing: sound, culture and history (2018)
Book Chapter
Mansell, J. G. (2018). Ways of hearing: sound, culture and history. In M. Bull (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Sound Studies (343-352). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315722191

Organising Sound: how a research network might help structure an exhibition (2017)
Journal Article
Boon, T., Jamieson, A., Kannenberg, J., Kolkowski, A., & Mansell, J. (2017). Organising Sound: how a research network might help structure an exhibition. Science Museum Group Journal, 8, https://doi.org/10.15180/170814

Neurasthenia, Civilization and the Sounds of Modern Life: Narratives of Nervous Illness in the Inter-war Campaign against Noise (2014)
Book Chapter
Mansell, J. G. (2014). Neurasthenia, Civilization and the Sounds of Modern Life: Narratives of Nervous Illness in the Inter-war Campaign against Noise. In D. Morat (Ed.), Sounds of Modern History: Auditory Cultures in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Europe (278-302). Berghahn

Introduction: The documentary film movement and the spaces of British identity (2012)
Journal Article
Anthony, S., & Mansell, J. G. (2012). Introduction: The documentary film movement and the spaces of British identity. Twentieth Century British History, 23(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwr054

Sound and the Cultural Politics of Time in the Avant-garde: Wyndham Lewis’s Critique of Bergsonism (2011)
Book Chapter
Mansell, J. G. (2011). Sound and the Cultural Politics of Time in the Avant-garde: Wyndham Lewis’s Critique of Bergsonism. In A. Gasiorek, A. Reeve-Tucker, & N. Waddell (Eds.), Wyndham Lewis and the Cultures of Modernity (111-126). Routledge

Writing on the eve of the First World War, the French philosopher Julien Benda concluded that music had become ‘a profound signature of the modern spirit’.1 According to Benda, this obsession was responsible for the anti-intellectual culture of moder... Read More about Sound and the Cultural Politics of Time in the Avant-garde: Wyndham Lewis’s Critique of Bergsonism.

Sound and the cultural politics of time in the avant-garde: Wyndham Lewis's critique of Bergsonism (2011)
Book Chapter
Mansell, J. G. (2011). Sound and the cultural politics of time in the avant-garde: Wyndham Lewis's critique of Bergsonism. In Wyndham Lewis and the cultures of modernity (111-125). Ashgate Publishing

Psycho buildings: Take on Architecture (2009)
Journal Article
Mansell, J. (2009). Psycho buildings: Take on Architecture. Senses and Society, 4(2), 259-264. https://doi.org/10.2752/174589309X425193

Musical modernity and contested commemoration at the festival of remembrance, 1923-1927 (2009)
Journal Article
Mansell, J. G. (2009). Musical modernity and contested commemoration at the festival of remembrance, 1923-1927. Historical Journal, 52(2), 433-454. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X09007535

This article makes the case for incorporating music into the history of war commemoration in 1920s Britain by examining John Foulds's A World Requiem , performed at the British Legion's first Festivals of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall between... Read More about Musical modernity and contested commemoration at the festival of remembrance, 1923-1927.