The article draws attention to the important role of the senses in the historical research. It focuses on the problem of hearing the past and on sonic history as a subdiscipline of historical studies. The author stresses that sonic history can be used to raise awareness of the destructive force of sound that might lead to sound-death (mass killing by the use of sound and vibrations caused by sonar devices). The problem is contextualized within the framework of environmental history inspired by posthumanism and non-anthropocentric approaches to the past.
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