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1. Victorian Soundscapes by John M. Picker
Douglas Kahn says:
“scholarly investigation into 19th C. England literature, science and technology”

2. The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction by Jonathan Sterne
Douglas Kahn says:
“see my editorial review under “from the publisher””

3. Listening to Nineteenth-Century America by Mark M. Smith
Douglas Kahn says:
“the sounds of slavery, the civil war, the political rhetoric of North and South

4. The Auditory Culture Reader (Sensory Formations) by Michael Bull
Douglas Kahn says:
“the first of several readers to appear on the subject in the next few years”

5. The Acoustic World of Early Modern England: Attending to the O-Factor by Bruce R. Smith
Douglas Kahn says:
“sounds and voices during the time of Shakespeare”

6. The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933 by Emily Thompson
Douglas Kahn says:
“indespensible: groundbreaking book on the history of acoustical architecture, technologies and science”

7. How Early America Sounded by Richard Cullen Rath
Douglas Kahn says:
“a new addition to the understanding of sound in American auditory culture”

8. Sound States: Innovative Poetics and Acoustical Technologies by Adalaide (ed.) Morris

9. Gramophone, Film, Typewriter (Writing Science) by Friedrich A. Kittler

10. Ezra Pound’s Radio Operas: The BBC Experiments, 1931¿1933 by Margaret Fisher
Douglas Kahn says:
“scholarly unearthing of Pound’s radiophonic works”

11. Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts by Douglas Kahn
Douglas Kahn says:
“retailing my own wares”

12. Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde by Douglas Kahn

13. Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression (Publications of the American Folklore Society New Series) by Steven Feld
Douglas Kahn says:
“a classic in the field”

14. Noise: The Political Economy of Music (Theory and History of Literature, Vol 16) by Jacques Attali
Douglas Kahn says:
“provocative but thesis of music as fortune teller of history is a fiction”

15. The Soundscape by R. Murray Schafer
Douglas Kahn says:
“formerly known as The Tuning of the World, an influential product of the 60s”

16. Music, Science, and Natural Magic in Seventeenth-Century England by Penelope Gouk
Douglas Kahn says:
“music and acoustics in natural magic”

17. Experimental Sound and Radio by Allen S. Weiss

18. Village Bells by Alain Corbin
Douglas Kahn says:
“written by the French historian of the senses”

19. Sounding Out the City: Personal Stereos and the Management of Everyday Life (Materializing Culture) by Michael Bull

20. Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity: Studies of Verbal Hallucinations by Ivan Leuder

21. Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism by Steven Connor
Douglas Kahn says:
“the topic is much more relevant than you think”

22. Hearing Things: Religion, Illusion, and the American Enlightenment by Leigh Eric Schmidt
Douglas Kahn says:
“like Connor’s book, scholarly and fascinating”

23. The Mechanical Song: Women, Voice, and the Artificial in Nineteenth-Century French Narrative by Felicia Miller-Frank

24. Listening in Paris: A Cultural History (Studies on the History of Society & Culture) by James H. Johnson

25. The Sound of Shakespeare (Accents on Shakespeare) by Wes Folkerth
Douglas Kahn says:
“read with Bruce Smith’s book”