Cultural histories of noise, sound and listening in Europe, 1300-1918 / edited by Ian Biddle and Kirsten Gibson.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-272) and index.

Section 1. Historicizing aurality: introduction / Ian Biddle and Kirsten Gibson. 'Sowndys and melodiis': perceptions of sound and music in late medieval England / Lisa Colton ; The physiologist at the opera: Claude Perrault's Du bruit (1680) and the politics of pleasure in the ancien régime / Veit Erlmann ; Georges Kastner's Les voix de Paris (1857): a study in musical Flânerie / Emily Laurance ; Refashioning rhythm: hearing, acting and reacting to metronomic sound in experimental psychology and beyond, c.1875-1920 / Alexander Bonus -- Section 2. Sound politics: introduction / Ian Biddle and Kirsten Gibson. Orphée at the Forains: silencing and silences in old regime France / Hedy Law ; Sound as promise and threat: drumming, collective violence and colonial law in British Ceylon / Jim Sykes ; 7. Cannons, church bells and colonial policies: the soundscape in Habsburg Bosnia-Herzegovina / Risto Pekka Pennanen -- Section 3. Urban soundscapes of Europe: Introduction / Ian Biddle and Kirsten Gibson. City life and music for secular entertainment in the Empire of Maximilian I / Helen Coffey ; Sonic afterworld: mapping the soundscape of heaven and hell in early modern cities / Daniele V. Filippi ; The Sounds of the city, 1598: Everard Guilpin's London in Skialetheia / Adam Hansen ; The soundscape of the city in the nineteenth century / Olivier Balay ; Porosity and modernity: Lisbon's soundscape from 1864-1908 / Joa̋o Silva.

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