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《现代性的声音景观》所讲述和分析的,是20世纪初美国听觉文化的历史。此书记录了当时人们所听到的声音的显著变化,并探讨了与此同等重要的听觉方式的转变。当时的人们,作为听觉商品的新兴消费者,开始被现代科学技术所创造出来的新型声音所环绕。笔者认为,通过调查声音技术如何生产出这些声音,是出于怎样的文化诉求,我们就可以更全面地触摸“机器时代”(The Machine Age)的历史,特别是由科学技术方面所牵动的文化嬗变。我把对“声音景观”的界定问题当作的论述的开篇。按照二十五年前,由音乐家默里·谢弗(R.
What is described and analyzed in The Soundscape of Modernity is the history of the American auditory culture early in the twentieth century. The book documents the dramatic changes people heard at the time and explored the equally important auditory shift. People at that time, emerging consumers as auditory goods, began to be surrounded by new sounds created by modern science and technology. In my opinion, it is out of the cultural appeal to investigate how these sounds are produced by investigating the sound technology so that we can more fully touch the history of The Machine Age, especially by science and technology Cultural evolution. I begin with the discourse on the definition of “soundscape.” According to twenty-five years ago, by musician Murray Schaffer (R.