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Lädt ... The Foghorn's Lament: The Disappearing Music of the Coast (Original 2021; 2021. Auflage)von Jennifer Lucy Allan (Autor)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. I loved this book and found it very moving, as well as informative and funny. It is a history of the foghorn, but so much more brilliant than that makes it sound. The sound of the foghorn is one we all recognise (I think!) but they are being left behind by technological advances, and this book covers their invention and usage, their part in our collective memory, music using and inspired by them, and the strange way of life of foghorn and lighthouse keepers. I had never thought about how hard it would be to build a lighthouse in a hostile coastal environment, I thoroughly enjoyed hearing about the FT review of Biswas's A Ships Opera as 'interminable honking', and was moved by the authors description of the sounds and envirnoment of these crazy pieces of engineering. It's obviously fairly niche, but I do think a lot of people would find something to enjoy in this book. ( ) keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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'A truly unusual and strangely revealing lens through which to view music and history and the dark life of the sea' Brian Eno 'As memorable, pleasurable and irrational as all the highest quests' John Higgs 'A perfect example of the power and beauty of industrial music' Cosey Fanni Tutti What does the foghorn sound like? It sounds huge. It rattles. It rattles you. It is a booming, lonely sound echoing into the vastness of the sea. When Jennifer Lucy Allan hears the foghorn's colossal bellow for the first time, it marks the beginning of an obsession and a journey deep into the history of a sound that has carved out the identity and the landscape of coastlines around the world, from Scotland to San Francisco. Within its sound is a maritime history of shipwrecks and lighthouse keepers, the story and science of our industrial past, and urban myths relaying tales of foghorns in speaker stacks, blasting out for coastal raves. An odyssey told through the people who battled the sea and the sound, who lived with it and loathed it, and one woman's intrepid voyage through the howling loneliness of nature. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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