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| | Noise and Silence: The Soundscape and Spirituality |
 | | Where before noise had been defined vaguely as the failure of certain tones to cohabit peacefully, and where before noise had been felt as something intermittent, soon it would be defined psychologically as unwanted sound and it would be felt as something constant. |
 | | This meant that, as commentators were at pains to point out, insofar as noise was the inevitable byproduct of the march of civilization, it must be with us always, in the thrum of commerce, the squeal of traffic, the clacking of typewriters and adding machines, the pounding of dynamos. |
 | | Insofar as noise hounds us in our daily lives, as it does me in the mobile home park in which I live, it is as much a social construction of the meaning of sounds (children playing, or yelling; mothers admonishing, or screaming; cars passing, or rumbling by) as it is an acoustic measurement. |
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