Listening to British Nature
Listening to British Nature
Wartime, Radio, and Modern Life, 1914-1945
Oxford University Press Inc
04/2022
232
Dura
Inglês
9780190085537
462
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Introduction 1. Birdsong over the trenches: the sound of survival and escape 'The air is loud with death' - listening in fear for danger Sonic relief amid the shelling Regenerative rhythms Resilience and 'carrying on' in birds and men Skyward escape with the lark Conclusion 2. Pastoral quietude for shell shock and national recovery Quiet for the wounded? Country house therapy The 'beneficent alluring quietude' of the Village Centre utopia Quiet for national recovery Conclusion 3. Broadcasting nature John Reith's public service nightingale In touch with cosmic harmony Normalising radio with nature Conclusion 4. The rambler's search for the sensuous Re-balancing the senses Willis Marshall: into the moors Nan Shepherd's merger with the mountain A violent assertion of personality: hedonism in nature Conclusion 5. Modern birdsong and civilisation at war Recording and modernising birdsong Home front listening tensions 'Consoling voices of the air': Ludwig Koch's broadcasts Birdsong civilised and civilising Conclusion Afterword Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography and sources Index
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Introduction 1. Birdsong over the trenches: the sound of survival and escape 'The air is loud with death' - listening in fear for danger Sonic relief amid the shelling Regenerative rhythms Resilience and 'carrying on' in birds and men Skyward escape with the lark Conclusion 2. Pastoral quietude for shell shock and national recovery Quiet for the wounded? Country house therapy The 'beneficent alluring quietude' of the Village Centre utopia Quiet for national recovery Conclusion 3. Broadcasting nature John Reith's public service nightingale In touch with cosmic harmony Normalising radio with nature Conclusion 4. The rambler's search for the sensuous Re-balancing the senses Willis Marshall: into the moors Nan Shepherd's merger with the mountain A violent assertion of personality: hedonism in nature Conclusion 5. Modern birdsong and civilisation at war Recording and modernising birdsong Home front listening tensions 'Consoling voices of the air': Ludwig Koch's broadcasts Birdsong civilised and civilising Conclusion Afterword Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography and sources Index
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