...Jennifer Stoever Using archival and rhetorical methods, “Just Be Quiet” analyzes discourse about “noise” produced by New York City's leading black newspaper, the New York Amsterdam News , from 1945 to 1955, a period when many white Americans came to perceive cities as loud, dangerous...

... to English voyage narratives from the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century in order to show how sailors were conceived as making “noise.” Such descriptions worked anxiously toward silencing sailors by delineating what they had the ability to articulate on the basis of their social position. Hence...

... is rooted in cities’ long-­standing efforts to control noise as a means of preventing social disorder. On the other hand, noise is not a singular or stable phenomenon but a constantly shifting assemblage of social, cultural, and political forces, which align in different ways at different historical...

... of communication. Meanwhile, the state has expanded its claims to regulate and discipline sound and noise in the name of public health, social order, and communal welfare. Evocations of sound, as well, shape in part how we evaluate social order or disorder. Peace, for example, might denote tranquility...

... by those in proximity to the action. The tension between the immediate event and mediated experience exists, of course, in the modern era, but in the Middle Ages these moments of noise and clamor within the vital oral public sphere were at a particular disconnect with existing accounts of them...

... Intelligent Men   127 the spindles is flying thickly, in the air.”22 As a result of all this activity, according to the doorkeeper of the House, William White, “when this Chamber is full it is not a good place to speak in.”23 Curzon and White seem to suggest that the level of noise had risen...

... a senior fellow at the Central European University’s Institute for Advanced Study, where he is researching and writing a book on the cultural history of preindustrial noise in early modern Germany. His additional research interests include the political and social effects of Protestant​ missions...

..., or a threatening pimp? It hardly mattered or changed the noise level when Marco and Cornelia were trading blows and screaming at each other, furniture was crashing down onto the street, and baby Lisabetta was wailing in the background.1 Borgo Ognissanti, the street and neighborhood located just north...

..., permaculture, and do-it-yourself living that resists the codes of the dominant reality. While Big Noise Tactical, which takes as its aim the production and distribution of passionate and revolutionary videos in communities of resistance, and the Guer- rilla News...

..., this reality is produced through spectacle. Like “Los Angeles Homicide” (2001), all of these images express heightened moments of the manifestation of power. Roused by the noise of police helicopters around her neighborhood, Samaras photographed...

...' Organization, Inc. 2015 Politicizing Sound and Noise The Oklahoma City Sonic Boom Experiment and the Politics of Supersonic Aviation David Suisman In 1964, the people of Oklahoma City were bombarded by sound. For six months, eight times daily, military jets assaulted Oklahoma’s capital...

... that are culturally productive are distinguished not by their relative relations of pitch, nor by their harmonic structure, nor their lyrical content. Rather, the significance of these textures derives from their specific timbral mapping of the boundary between noise and music and the precise rhythmic...

... at the government! Eh! A knife! A bomb in the Congress? A bomb is just a lot of noise. With such things, dear customer, with such things, the poor man gains nothing. Filomena - You’re right, Don Salvador. How much do I owe you from yes- terday? Vegetable Man - Potatoes, beans...

... Noise" is, like his work on early rock 'n' roll, nicely attentive to the movements of people which makes for new music; and John Pettegrew's article places MTV clearly within "the cultural contra- dictions of capitalism." Finally, we take aim directly at the question of authenticity in pop...

..., ”Italian-Americans in Film: From Immigrants to Icons,” MELUS 14 (Fall-Winter 1987). Michael Rogin, ”Blackface, White Noise: The Jewish Jazz Singer Finds His Voice,” Critical Inquiry 18 (Spring 1992). Auteur Criticism: William Howze, “JohnFord’s Celluloid Canvas,” Southwest Media Review...

... sensorial, corpo- real, and earthly register: that of the mapu. Thus his poetic journey transits through a heterogeneous territory of voices, sounds, and images attached to the land, where whispers, screams, creaks, applause, sobs, groans, silences, and noise happen and flow from the earth-­tongue...

... in People’s History and Socialist Theory, ed. Ralph Samuel (1981). Jacques Attali, Noise: The Political Economy of Music (1977). Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism (1991, rev. ed Warren Susman, Culture as History: The Transformation...

... review, forthcoming in the American Historical Review .) 72 BAILYN BESIEGED IN HIS BUNKER* Boom Boom What is that noise? Where is it coming from? Can anybody tell us what that noise is Maybe they're rehearsing at Lexington...

... on noise, food, the environment, and more.41 In addition to the BBC2 program that Shallice had assisted with, BSSRS members made regular contributions to the press. Early on, in autumn 1971, the Sunday Telegraph flew both Rosenhead and Peter Smith, who was then BSSRS treasurer, to Belfast to report...

... mode of thought: while the “Negro” may be naturally musical, this “music,” if not sheer noise, reflects the 07-RHR 84 Radano.btw 9/12/02 2:30 PM Page 117 Radano | Narrating Black Music’s Past 117 imitative abilities...