The Banana Peel Project

I have just posted an analysis of Emily Thompson’s The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933. The analysis was written for a seminar, and is therefore dreadfully academic. If you’re into that kind of thing, I think you might enjoy it. Otherwise, just read the book, which is much more readable than my analysis of it anyway. If you are at all interested in music, architecture, science, or history I highly recommend it.

Soundscape is, without a doubt, the clearest and most fascinating book on material culture I have read in the last three years.

My analysis can be found in the books section of BPP.