Towards a periodization of listening: Radio and modern life

International Journal of Cultural Studies

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 279-288

  Lacey, Kate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

auditory regimes; Benjamin; boredom; distraction; gender; Kracauer; listening; modernization; radio; Weimar

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993682661     PISSN: 13678779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/136787790000300216     Document Type: Article

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