The City of Din: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The City of Din by Dan McKenzie: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 11 original MP3 tracks, 2:32:37 running time and a link to listen.
The City of Din, credited to Dan McKenzie, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of The City of Din by Dan McKenzie. Read in English by Amelia Chesley A treatise on the increasing loudness of modern life, including philosophical and scientific discussion of what noise is, how effects us physically, mentally, and socially in cities, on railways, at home, in workplaces, and on battlefields of war. The book concludes with some strong suggestions for protecting ourselves from noise as well as for lessening noise altogether. - Summary by Amelia Chesley
Recording facts
- Recording title: The City of Din
- Author credits: Dan McKenzie
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 11
- Listed recording duration: 2:32:37
Catalogue topics
- nature
- cities
- noise
Track guide
- 01 - Preface: "in the hope of rendering the world we live in quieter" — 6:03
- 02 - "the world of Nature is not noisy" — 17:31
- 03 - "the July night is thund'rous" — 13:18
- 04 - "Civilisation is noise." — 17:02
- 05 - "sensibility to noise varies very much" — 12:02
- 06 - "in a world of reduced sound" — 11:00
- 07 - "church bells, calling the faithful to worship" — 17:26
- 08 - "the noise of railway trains" — 21:41
- 09 - "noise and its evils" — 21:52
- 10 - "noises of modern war" — 4:53
- 11 - "the modern malady of Din" — 9:49
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