Acoustics of Empire

Acoustics of Empire articulates what we might call a cultural history of global acoustics in the Age of Empire. Increasingly, music and sound studies have turned their attention to questions of empire and postcolonial thought, raising new questions about the forms and circulation of cultural, techno...

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description Acoustics of Empire articulates what we might call a cultural history of global acoustics in the Age of Empire. Increasingly, music and sound studies have turned their attention to questions of empire and postcolonial thought, raising new questions about the forms and circulation of cultural, technological, and military power as manifest in and through sound. However, most of this scholarship has focused on the twentieth century. 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. Examining histories of sound, listening practices, and audiovisual technologies of the Long Nineteenth Century through the lens of geopolitical power, Acoustics of Empire recovers a history of sound that is bound up with, even as it elides, questions of imperial and colonial rule. Bringing together contributions from historians, musicologists, anthropologists, and literary critics, the book emphasizes historical moments in which academic disciplines like musicology and history were created at the same moment and often in connection with global empires.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1423992024-07-23T04:00:57Z Acoustics of Empire McMurray, Peter Mukhopadhyay, Priyashi acoustics, empire, sound studies, postcolonial studies, musicology, archive, technology thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music::AVM History of music thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTQ Colonialism and imperialism thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTR National liberation and independence::NHTR1 Decolonisation and postcolonial studies Acoustics of Empire articulates what we might call a cultural history of global acoustics in the Age of Empire. Increasingly, music and sound studies have turned their attention to questions of empire and postcolonial thought, raising new questions about the forms and circulation of cultural, technological, and military power as manifest in and through sound. However, most of this scholarship has focused on the twentieth century. 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. Examining histories of sound, listening practices, and audiovisual technologies of the Long Nineteenth Century through the lens of geopolitical power, Acoustics of Empire recovers a history of sound that is bound up with, even as it elides, questions of imperial and colonial rule. Bringing together contributions from historians, musicologists, anthropologists, and literary critics, the book emphasizes historical moments in which academic disciplines like musicology and history were created at the same moment and often in connection with global empires. 2024-07-23T04:00:54Z 2024-07-23T04:00:54Z 2024-07-22T08:41:55Z 2024 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/92404 9780197553794 9780197553787 9780197553817 9780197553824 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/142399 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/92404/1/McMurray_9780197553800_WEB.pdf Oxford University Press 10.1093/ oso/ 9780197553787.001.0001 10.1093/ oso/ 9780197553787.001.0001 db4e319f-ca9f-449a-bcf2-37d7c6f885b1 b9eb3c19-dde3-4f5f-b934-208e0233bc00 9780197553794 9780197553787 9780197553817 9780197553824 385 New York University of Cambridge University of Cambridge in United Kingdom 10.13039/501100000735 open access
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Acoustics of Empire
title Acoustics of Empire
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title_short Acoustics of Empire
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