Listening to nineteenth-century America / Mark M. Smith.
"Arguing for the importance of the aural dimension of history Mark M. Smith contends that to understand what it meant to be northern or southern, slave or free - to understand sectional-modernity that led to the Civil War - we must consider how antebellum Americans comprehended the sounds and s...
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| Other title: | Listening to 19th century America. |
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| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2001.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Sounding Pasts. Imagining Maestros: Constructing and Defending the Southern Soundscape ; Soniferous Gardens ; Creeping Discord ; Dreadful, Silent Moments
- Keynotes Old and New: Listening to Northern Soundscapes. Northern Echoes ; Sounds Modern
- Aural Sectionalism: The Politics of Hearing and the Hearing of Politics. Listening to Bondage ; Northern Shouts and Southern Ears
- Noises Hideous, Silences Profound, Sounds Ironic: Listening to the Civil War and Reconstruction. Noises of War ; Confederate Soundscapes ; Sounds of Emancipation, Reconstruction, and Reunion
- Sound Matters: An Essay on Method.