Exposure to noise pollution has serious health risks, and disproportionately affects certain communities. But what if regulating it would accidentally do more harm than good?

RS TSHIRTS https://cottonbureau.com/products/phonocloud

Check out Seeker’s NOISE WEEK at http://YouTube.com/Seeker

The Generation Gap by CBC’s Podcast Playlist: https://bit.ly/2wAgJU6

 

SOURCES

ARTICLES

• Noise Is a Drug and New York Is Full of Addicts – http://bit.ly/2FXRUB2
• The Future Will Be Quiet – https://theatln.tc/2G1mb1J
• The racial wealth gap: How African-Americans have been shortchanged out of the materials to build wealth – http://bit.ly/2FZYaYQ
• Noise pollution loudest in black neighborhoods, segregated cities – http://bit.ly/2FYQAOg
• Noise Pollution Hits Segregated Cities Hardest – http://bit.ly/2FZ9tAR
• Is Your Noisy Neighborhood Slowly Killing You? – http://bit.ly/2G29p2W
• How City Noise Affects Residents’ Health – https://theatln.tc/2FX36hj

 

PAPERS

• White Faces in Intimate Spaces: Jamaican Popular Music in Global Circulation – Larisa Kingston Mann – http://bit.ly/2G1oEJx
• Race/Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status, Residential Segregation, and Spatial Variation in Noise Exposure in the Contiguous United States – Casey et al – http://bit.ly/2G0zAY3
• The Haves, the Have-Nots, and the Health of Everyone: The Relationship Between Social Inequality and Environmental Quality – Cushing et al – http://bit.ly/2G0Q5Di
• Why Do People Like Loud Sound? A Qualitative Study – Welch & Fremaux – http://bit.ly/2G0Nlpp
• GIS Metrics – Soundscape Modeling – Sherrill – https://bit.ly/2Ir4pdM [PDF]
• NIGHT NOISE GUIDELINES FOR EUROPE – WHO – http://bit.ly/2FYy0WH [PDF]
• Guidelines for community noise – WHO – http://bit.ly/2G0g4uK
• Burden of disease from environmental noise – WHO – http://bit.ly/2FZIkO8 [PDF]
• Breaking the Sound Barrier: A Historian Listens to Noise – Bailey – http://bit.ly/
  

 

FURTHER READING

• Noise. Church. Flesh.: Or, For Coltrane Church, For Pulse – Crawley, LA Review of Books- http://bit.ly/2KYykYU
• Mechanical Sound – Karin Bijesterveld – http://bit.ly/2jVMair
• Environmental Noise Pollution: Noise Mapping, Public Health, and Policy – Murphy and King – http://bit.ly/2jXggCu

 

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