In 1996 Roger Deakin

[Jahren] doesn’t use scare tactics or shrill warnings

Featuring illustrations by Haley Hagerman

and extracts from his notebooks illustrating actual examples of the landscapes he describes

Kultur & Gespenster bringt einen Teil der Sagen

The Gender of Sound Offset In 1996 Roger DeakinHuman history is filled with unacceptable sounds: high pitched voices, gossip, talkativeness, hysteria, wailing and ritual shouts. Who makes them? Those deviant from or deficient in the masculine ideal of self control: women, catamites, eunuchs and androgynes all fall into this category. From the myths of antiquity to Margaret Thatcher via Sigmund Freud and Gertrude Stein, The Gender of Sound charts the gendering of sound in Western culture. Carson