aurality
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Aurality: Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia Ana María Ochoa Gautier In this audacious book, Ana María Ochoa Gautier explores how listening has been central to the production of notions of language, music, voice, and sound that determine the politics…
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Reason and Resonance: A History of Modern Aurality Veit Erlmann Hearing has traditionally been regarded as the second sense – as somehow less rational and less modern than the first sense, sight. Reason and Resonance explodes this myth by reconstructing…
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Hearing Modernity – Sawyer Seminar at Harvard
Sound, fleeting and immaterial, has long proved resistant to academic inquiry. Faced with the impenetrable difficulty of pinning down sounds themselves, scholars have largely focused on written texts (instead of spoken words), while musicians have largely focused on notes (instead…