The Audible Past explores the cultural origins of sound reproduction.
Sterne studies the constantly shifting boundary between phenomena or.
With an ear for the unexpected, scholar and musician Jonathan Sterne uses the technological and cultural precursors of telephony, phonography, and radio as an entry point into a history of sound in its own right.
It describes a distinctive sound culture that gave birth to the sound recording and the transmission devices so ubiquitous in modern life.
The Audible Past explores the cultural origins of sound reproduction