Talking and listening in the age of modernity : essays on the history of sound

Talking and Listening in the Age of Modernity: Essays on the history of sound......Page 1
Table of Contents......Page 5
Introduction......Page 7
1. A ‘Roaring Decade’: Listening to the Australian gold-fields......Page 13
2. A Complex Kind of Training: Cities, technologies and sound in jazz-age Europe......Page 25
The machine age......Page 28
The jazz age......Page 34
Sound of the city/dissonant modernism......Page 36
3. Speech, Children and the Federation Movement......Page 41
In my wildest egotistical dreams......Page 55
Independent manhood......Page 56
He spoke so well they thought he was beautiful......Page 57
The British Prime Minister trounced......Page 61
In conclusion: only talk......Page 62
5. Hunting the Wild Reciter: Elocution and the Art of Recitation......Page 65
The poetry generation......Page 66
Resuscitating an immoral piece of poultry......Page 70
Radio killed the poetry star?......Page 73
6. World English? How an Australian Invented ‘Good American Speech’......Page 79
7. ‘The Australian Has a Lazy Way of Talking’: Australian character and accent, 1920s–1940s......Page 89
Australian accent: ‘the detestable snuffle’......Page 90
‘There is nothing wrong with Australian speech’......Page 98
8. Towards a History of the Australian Accent......Page 103
9. Voice, Power and Modernity......Page 119
10. Modernity, Intimacy and Early Australian Commercial Radio......Page 129
11. Talking Salvation for the Silent Majority: Projecting new possibilities of modernity in the Australian cinema, 1929–1933......Page 139
Australia’s ‘talkie war’......Page 140
Preventing extinction of the Australian enterprise......Page 144
‘Quality’ of local, regional and national ingenuity......Page 150
Conclusion: Australia’s experience of modernity in sound......Page 157
Acknowledgements......Page 160
Authors......Page 165
Index......Page 169