{"product_id":"the-acoustic-world-of-early-bruce-r-smith-9780226763774","title":"The Acoustic World of Early Modern England: Attending to the O-Factor","description":"We know how a Shakespeare play sounds when performed today, but what would listeners have heard within the wooden \"O\" of the Globe Theater in 1599? What sounds would have filled the air in early modern England, and what would these sounds have meant to people in that largely oral culture? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this ear-opening journey into the sound-worlds of Shakespeare's contemporaries, Bruce R. Smith explores both the physical aspects of human speech (ears, lungs, tongue) and the surrounding environment (buildings, landscape, climate), as well as social and political structures. Drawing on a staggeringly wide range of evidence, he crafts a historical phenomenology of sound, from reconstructions of the \"soundscapes\" of city, country, and court to detailed accounts of the acoustic properties of the Globe and Blackfriars theaters and how scripts designed for the two spaces exploited sound very differently. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCritical for anyone who wants to understand the world of early modern England, Smith's pathbreaking \"ecology\" of voice and listening also has much to offer musicologists and acoustic ecologists. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bruce R. Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226763773\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226763774\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.97h x 6.00w x 0.84d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/1999 pg. 93\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2000 pg. 189","brand":"Bruce R. Smith","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44119459102975,"sku":"9780226763774","price":44.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0ea94884-3a59-418b-9c6f-bed0d2cafba6.jpg?v=1687409470","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-acoustic-world-of-early-bruce-r-smith-9780226763774","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}