"This is a timely intervention in sound studies, one of the most innovative fields to have emerged in the past 10 years. It brings together work by some established figures in the field (e.g. Mark Smith), but also essays by emerging scholars...One of the key aspects of the collection is the focus on aurality as part of a wider history of modernity." - Veit Erlmann, University of Texas at Austin

"Sounds of Modern History offers a strong collection of essays, by younger as well as established scholars, bringing the vanguard of European sound studies scholarship in direct dialogue...