![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Embracing the novelty of newly domesticated audiovisual technologies including television and radio broadcasts, as well as sounds heard on the street, such as warning sirens or the bleeps of passing satellites, allows one to listen in on the past, adding a new dimension to understandings of the era. Expanding the scope of analysis beyond visual culture and printed culture revives and reanimates historical events, lifting them from the two-dimensional page or screen into the realm of lived, everyday experience. In this manner, the article is part of my broader research regarding the sensory cultural history of the time, considering the way specific sense impressions – sight, sound, smell, taste, touch – were used to varying degrees to construct identity and meaning at a time of scientific innovation and new possibilities. Focusing on the visual symbols of the flying saucer, the mushroom cloud of the atomic bomb, and the Soviet satellite Sputnik, it approaches these new shapes in the sky through the sound impressions they made. This article investigates the intersection between modernity and Science Fiction in postwar US culture. ![]()
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