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Danger sound Klaxon! : the horn that changed history / Matthew F. Jordan

Author
Jordan, Matthew F.
Published
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2023.
Copyright Date
©2023
Physical Description
xiv, 256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

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Contents
Introduction : Soundscapes and Schematics -- Sound Competition : Make Way for the Automobile -- First Encounters : Sound in the Age of the Electrical Signal -- Klaxon and the Rise of Modern Advertising -- Klaxon and the Mutable Law of the Technology Business -- Danger Sound Klaxon : Localizing the International Brand of the Future -- Sounding the Alarm : Klaxon in the Trenches -- Sidewalk Blues : The Klaxon in Diminuendo -- Conclusion : Quieting the Klaxon
Summary
"Danger Sound Klaxon tells the story of the Klaxon automobile horn, one of the first great electrical consumer technologies of the twentieth century, and it examines the problem of using sound to communicate in an increasingly noisy automobile-centered modernity. By charting the rise and eventual fall of the Klaxon, the author highlights how perceptions of sound-producing technologies are guided by and transform due to public debate, consumer discourses, and governmental regulations"--
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ISBN
9780813947952 hardcover
0813947952 hardcover
9780813947969 paperback
0813947960 paperback
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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