How Early America Sounded
- ISBN-10
- 0801472725
- ISBN-13
- 9780801472725
- Category
- Hearing
- Pages
- 227
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Author
- Richard Cullen Rath
Description
Offers literary and anthropological evidence that the past placed greater importance on the aural than the visual, focusing on the significance of non-verbal noises in colonial North America from 1607 to 1770. Reprint.
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