Sound in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010)
Biographical note: David Suisman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Delaware and is author of Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music. Susan Strasser is Professor of History at the University of Delaware and the author of Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash
Main description: Scholars investigate sound as part of the social construction of historical experience and as an element of the sensory relationship people have to the world, showing how hearing and listening can inform people's feelings, ideas, decisions, and actions