Between Sound and Silence: The Failure of the “Symphony of Sirens” in Baku (1922) and Moscow (1923)
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DOI: 10.1017/slr.2020.9
Abstract: This article aims to temper the myth of the sound and scale of Arsenii Avraamov's city-wide mass spectacle the “Symphony of Sirens”—a myth that has been largely unquestioned in English-language sound and urban studies scholarship… read more here.
Keywords: sound silence; symphony sirens; symphony; sound ... See more keywords