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accent
agencies
analysis
audio
Author_Greg Goodale
cartoons
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clocks
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fear
film
frustration
history
identity
instrumental
interwar
literature
locomotives
machinery
modernity
musical
pausing
persuasion
producers
propaganda
race
radio
recorded age
recordings
sound
visual
vocal
Product details
- ISBN 9780252077951
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 Mar 2011
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Sonic Persuasion: Reading Sound in the Recorded Age critically analyzes a range of sounds on vocal and musical recordings, on the radio, in film, and in cartoons to show how sounds are used to persuade in subtle ways. Greg Goodale explains how and to what effect sounds can be "read" like an aural text, demonstrating this method by examining important audio cues such as dialect, pausing, and accent in presidential recordings at the turn of the twentieth century. Goodale also shows how clocks, locomotives, and machinery are utilized in film and literature to represent frustration and anxiety about modernity, and how race and other forms of identity came to be represented by sound during the interwar period. In highlighting common sounds of industry and war in popular media, Sonic Persuasion also demonstrates how programming producers and governmental agencies employed sound to evoke a sense of fear in listeners. Goodale provides important links to other senses, especially the visual, to give fuller meaning to interpretations of identity, culture, and history in sound.
Greg Goodale is assistant professor of communication studies at Northeastern University and the coeditor of Arguments About Animal Ethics.
