Listening to British Nature: Wartime, Radio, and Modern Life, 1914-1945 arguesthat trench warfare created new practices of listening to nature in order to cultivate an intimate connection with its vibrations to understand danger and to imagine survival. In focusing on the sensing of sounds and rhythms, this study demonstrates how nature retained its emotional potency as the pace of life seemed to increase and new man-made sounds and sonic media appeared all around.
Listening to British Nature: Wartime, Radio, and Modern Life, 1914-1945 arguesthat trench warfare created new practices of listening to nature in order to cultivate an intimate connection with its vibrations to understand danger and to imagine survival. In focusing on the sensing of sounds and rhythms, this study demonstrates how nature retained its emotional potency as the pace of life seemed to increase and new man-made sounds and sonic media appeared all around.
Michael Guida is a cultural historian and a Research Associate in Media & Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex. His research concentrates on avian-human relations in modern urban Britain and recent published work has examined cultures of birdkeeping (in The Working Class at Home, 1770-1940, Palgrave) and birdsong and emotions (in The Routledge Companion to Animal-Human History).
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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
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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