How Early America Sounded"My hope is that by attending to sound I have been able to open up parts of these worlds, not to get a glimpse of them but to listen in. These were worlds much more alive with sound than our own, worlds not yet disenchanted, worlds perhaps even chanted into being."from the Introduction In early America, every sound had a living, willful force at its source. Sometimes these forces were not human or even visible. In this fascinating and highly original