Based on a major BBC Radio 4 series, David Hendy explores the role of sound - and of listening - in 100,000 years of human history.
David Hendy is 'Professor of Media and Communication at the University of Sussex. His books include Life on Air: a History of Radio Four, which won the 2008 History Today-Longman Book of the Year Award and was nominated for the Orwell Prize.
A social history of sound from the Paleolithic to the present -
David Hendy reconstructs the acoustic environments of our ancestors
and contemporaries in words, conjuring them to life for the mind's
ear. Brilliant and thought-provoking - curl up somewhere noisy and
enjoy!
*Nigel Warburton*
Praise for David Hendy's previous books -
'An unalloyed treat
*The Times*
Endlessly engrossing
*Guardian*
A magnificent chronicle
*THES*
Praise for David Hendy's Life on Air: a History of Radio Four:
'Academically rigorous, but eminently readable
*Daily Mail*
Eminently readable, utterly reliable, on occasions painfully frank,
it is a joy to read and a masterly lesson in how to translate bare
fact into compelling narrative
*Daily Telegraph*
Authoritative... independent-minded and, above all, highly
readable
*History Today*
Masterly ... amusing ... exhilarating
*Times Literary Supplement*
A historian who makes brilliant use of interviews, memoirs, old
recordings and so on... The result is a long and scholarly book,
but one filled with riveting detail and anecdote, constantly
illuminating about the peculiar character of Britain's best-loved
and most criticised radio network. It also provides a wonderful
case study of the dynamics of anxiety produced by social change...
endlessly engrossing
*Guardian*
An easy enthusiasm that is hard to resist... provides both juicy
gossip and grand anthropology
*Daily Telegraph*
A nugget of surprising and entertaining fact on every page
*Time Out*
Fascinating. Noise is something to shout about.
*Emily Cockayne, author of Hubbub*
Hendy's absorbing argument is persuasive
*Financial Times*
Hendy's radiant and lyrical account of an otherwise elusive subject
attests to his grasp of the history of sound and an amazing ability
to weave vast and complex themes to a cohesive, accessible
page-turner. Noise: A History of Sound and Listening is a
thoroughly exhilarating encounter.
*Bernie Krause, author of 'The Great Animal Orchestra'*
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