City of noise : sound and nineteenth-century Paris /
Nineteenth-century Paris was grand, busy, and overwhelmingly noisy, so noisy that the racket became a matter for public concern in Paris before any other city. There were not only more people in the growing metropolis, but more sources of sound, much of it sung, barked, or bellowed to sell merchandi...
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| Language: | English |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | Studies in sensory history
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