Industrialists inherited the clergy’s license to make noise

Evidence

During the Industrial Revolution, Sacred Noise sprang across to the profane world. Now the industrialists held power and they were granted dispensation to make Noise by means of the steam engine and the blast furnace, just as previously the monks had been free to make Noise on the church bell or J. S. Bach to open out his preludes on the full organ. — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 263

Categorization

• XREF: Directly builds on the earlier Sacred Noise concept from Part One. — connects to: Sacred Noise is authority to make sound without censure — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 264; Industrial wealth created the very leisure class that then condemned industrial noise — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute…, 158
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 263

Broader Connections

• Industrial wealth created the very leisure class that then condemned industrial noise #expands (0.75) — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels, 158