Acoustics of empire

• Titel: Acoustics of empire
• Titelzusatz: sound, media, and power in the long nineteenth century
• Mitwirkende: McMurray, Peter L. [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Mukhopadhyay, Priyasha [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Peter McMurray and Priyasha Mukhopadhyay
• Verlagsort: New York, NY
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Jahr: 2024
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 372 Seiten)
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen, Notenbeispiele
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Oxford scholarship online
• ISBN: 978-0-19-755382-4
• ISBN: 978-0-19-755381-7
• ISBN: 978-0-19-755380-0
• DOI: doi:10.1093/oso/9780197553787.001.0001
• Schlagwörter: (s)Imperialismus / (s)Kolonialismus / (s)Klang / (s)Musik / (s)Massenmedien / (s)Kommunikation / (z)Geschichte 1800-1900
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Dokumenttyp: Aufsatzsammlung
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: McMurray, Peter L.: Acoustics of empire. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2024. - viii, 372 Seiten
• RVK-Notation: NP 1300
• Sach-SW: History
• Sach-SW: History
• K10plus-PPN: 1900781948
• K10plus-PPN:
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• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

How have sound and empire shaped one another historically? 'Acoustics of Empire' recovers a sonic history that is bound up with imperial power and colonial rule. Bringing together contributions from historians, musicologists, anthropologists, and literary scholars, this book emphasizes the entangled histories of sound and empire. The 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.

Abstract

"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"--