Noise legislation is a documentary register of acoustic phobias

Evidence

The study of noise legislation is interesting, not because anything is ever really accomplished by it, rather because it provides us with a concrete register of acoustic phobias and nuisances. Changes in legislation give us clues to changing social attitudes and perceptions, and these are important for the accurate treatment of sound symbolism. — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 242

Categorization

• XREF: A research methodology the reader could adopt for studying how societies perceive sound — reading law as an acoustic archive. — connects to: Noise by-laws function as ethnographic records of cultural sound attitudes — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 646; Base noise protests are driven by what the noise symbolizes; Islamophobia operates as ambient background noise masking concrete injustices
• SEED: Essay angle: mining historical noise regulations across eras to reconstruct what sounds people feared most.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 242

Broader Connections

• Noise by-laws function as ethnographic records of cultural sound attitudes #corroborates (0.95) — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 646
• Base noise protests are driven by what the noise symbolizes #expands (0.75)
• Islamophobia operates as ambient background noise masking concrete injustices #complicates (0.55)