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9780271071190 Academic Inspection Copy

The Noisy Renaissance

Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life
  • ISBN-13: 9780271071190
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Niall Atkinson
  • Price: AUD $195.00
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  • Local release date: 14/10/2016
  • Format: Hardback 280 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Photography & photographs [AJ]
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Analyzes how the premodern city, through the example of Renaissance Florence, can be understood as an acoustic phenomenon. Explores how city sounds, such as the ringing of church bells, can be foundational elements in the creation and maintenance of urban communities and the spaces they inhabit.


Contents

Table of Contents  

List of Illustrations  

Acknowledgments  

Introduction: Journey into the Noisy Renaissance  

Chapter 1: The Acoustic Art of City-Building  

Chapter 2: Florentine Soundscapes  

Chapter 3: Sound, Space, and Meaning in Renaissance Florence  

Chapter 4: Suoni, Voci, Rumori: Listening to the City  

Chapter 5: Sonic Discord, Urban Disorder  

Epilogue: Ephemerality, Durability, and Architectural History  

Notes  

Bibliography  

Index


“Provides the reader with a refreshingly democratizing study of Florentine sonic life. Seeking out forgotten, discordant and noisy sounds and sensory experiences, The Noisy Renaissance draws our attention to the complex interplay of sound, space and the body in the streets and squares of early modern Florence. In doing so, it heralds the emergence of ‘noise’ as a valuable new object of historical enquiry in Renaissance studies.”

—Emanuela Vai, Art History

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