Books
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Unspoken: A Rhetoric of Silence Cheryl Glenn In our talkative Western culture, speech is synonymous with authority and influence while silence is frequently misheard as passive agreement when it often signifies much more. In her groundbreaking exploration of silence as…
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Silence: The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise Thich Nhat Hanh The Zen master and one of the world’s most beloved teachers returns with a concise, practical guide to understanding and developing our most powerful inner resource—silence—to…
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A Million Years of Music: The Emergence of Human Modernity Gary Tomlinson What is the origin of music? In the last few decades this centuries-old puzzle has been reinvigorated by new archaeological evidence and developments in the fields of cognitive…
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Sound Art: Beyond Music, Between Categories Alan Licht Over the past century, an art form has emerged that draws from the worlds of visual art and music. Sound art’s roots can be found in the experimental work of Italian Futurism,…
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The Harmony of the Spheres: The Pythagorean Tradition in Music Joscelyn Godwin Professor of Music at Colgate University and a widely respected musicologist, Godwin traces the history of the idea, held since ancient times, that the whole cosmos, with its…
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The Rhythmic Event: Art, Media, and the Sonic Eleni Ikoniadou The sonic has come to occupy center stage in the arts and humanities. In the age of computational media, sound and its subcultures can offer more dynamic ways of accounting…