ISBN:
0197553788
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9780197553787
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0197553796
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9780197553794
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 372 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Notenbeispiele
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Acoustics of empire
DDC:
302.209034
Keywords:
19. Jahrhundert (ca. 1800 bis ca. 1899)
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c 1800 to c 1900
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Sound Social aspects 19th century
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History
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Sound Political aspects 19th century
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History
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Sound in mass media
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Communication Social aspects 19th century
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History
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Colonialism & imperialism
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Kolonialismus und Imperialismus
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LIT024050
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LIT025060
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Literary studies: post-colonial literature
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Literaturwissenschaft: postkoloniale Literatur
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MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory
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Media studies
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Medienwissenschaften
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Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
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Musikwissenschaft und Musiktheorie
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POL045000
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
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Theory of music & musicology
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Imperialismus
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Kolonialismus
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Klang
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Musik
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Massenmedien
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Kommunikation
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Geschichte 1800-1900
Abstract:
Music and sound studies have increasingly turned their attention to questions of empire and postcolonial thought in recent years, raising new questions about the forms and circulation of cultural, technological, political, and military power as manifest in and through sound. However, most of this scholarship has focused on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Conversely, sound and media studies have made nineteenth-century histories of science and technology a central part of their canonical repertoire, but largely overlooked the ways in which these technological developments emerged from contexts of empire. Acoustics of Empire provides a cultural history of global acoustics in the Age of Empire. Examining histories of sound, listening practices, and audiovisual technologies of the long nineteenth century through the lens of geopolitical power, the authors recover a sonic history that is irrefutably entangled with questions of imperial power and colonial rule. This volume brings together historians, musicologists, anthropologists, and literary scholars to consider topics ranging from Indian music treatises and vocal practices in Brazil to Egyptian traffic noises and stethoscopes-as-props in South Africa. Across its chapters more broadly, it also draws attention to a period when Euro-American academic disciplines like musicology and linguistics were created, shaped by the imperial contexts in which they emerged. These intertwined legacies of sound and power are not simply historical curiosities; rather, they stand as formative influences in cultural modernity and its discontents that continue to shape the ways we hear and experience the world today
Description / Table of Contents:
AcknowledgmentsList of ContributorsIntroduction: Imperial Sounds, c. 1797Peter McMurray and Priyasha MukhopadhyayPART I. INFRASTRUCTURE AND CITIES1. Grappling All Day: Towards Another History of TelegraphyAlejandra Bronfman2. Encounter and Memory in Ottoman Soundscapes: An Audiovisual Album of Street Vendors' CriesNazan Maksudyan3. Listening to Infrastructure: Traffic Noise and Classism in Modern EgyptZiad FahmyPART II. TECHNIQUES OF LISTENING4. Colonial Listening and the Epistemology of Deception: The Stethoscope in AfricaGavin Steingo5. Epistemological Jugalbandi: Sound, Science, and the Supernatural in Colonial North IndiaRichard David Williams6. Ramendrasundar Tribedi and a Sonic History of Race in Colonial BengalProjit Bihari MukharjiPART III. MUSICAL ENCOUNTERS7. Cosmopoiesis: Stories Sung of the Equatorial Gulf of Guinea, 1817James Q. Davies8. Listening to Korea: Audible Prayers, Boat Songs, and the Aural Possibilities of the U.S. Missionary ArchiveHyun Kyong Hannah Chang9. Listening through the Operatic Voice in 1820s Rio de JaneiroBenjamin Walton10. Ethnography and Exoticism in Nineteenth-Century FranceSindhumathi RevuluriPART IV. SILENCE AND ITS OTHERS11. The Anacoustic: Imperial Aurality, Aesthetic Capture, and the Spanish-American WarJairo Moreno12. pee ä wee, an Outrageous Clatter, and Other Sounds of AcclimatizationAlexandra Hui13. Gandhi's SilenceFaisal DevjiAfterword: Sound in the Imperial ArchiveElleke BoehmerIndex
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