Testing Hearing The Making of Modern Aurality argues that the modern cultural practices of hearing and testing have emerged from a long interrelationship. Since the early nineteenth century, auditory test tools (whether organ pipes or electronic tone generators) and the results of hearing tests have fed back into instrument calibration, human training, architecture, and the creation of new musical sounds. Hearing tests received a further boost around 1900 as a result of injury compensation laws and state and professional demands for aptitude testing in schools, conservatories, the military, and other fields. Applied at large scale, tests of seemingly small measureof auditory acuity, of hearing rangehelped redefine the modern concept of hearing as such. During the twentieth and twentyfirst centuries, the epistemic function of hearing expanded. Hearing took on the dual role of test object and test instrument in the latter case, human hearing became a gauge by which to evaluate or regulate materials, nonhuman organisms, equipment, and technological systems. This book considers both the testing of hearing and testing with hearing to explore the cocreation of modern epistemic and auditory cultures. The books twelve contributors trace the design of ever more specific tests for the arts, education and communication, colonial and military applications, sociopolitical and industrial endeavors. Together, they demonstrate that testing as such became an enduring and wideranging...

Binding: Paperback;414 pages; Publisher: Oxford University Press; Classification: N/A; Weight: 698.78 g; Dimensions: N/A

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