Mediated Music & Meditation in Modernity:

Radio Pop and Train Whistles in Public and Private Spaces

Abstract

Influenced by the Massachusetts Peace Movement of the early 1800s, transcendentalists Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau believed that peace was derived from an awareness of an internal state of being. Thoreau longed for peace within his soul and surroundings. He retreated into the woods that embraced his Walden, a respite for time and space appropriate for independent thought...