hearing modernity
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New Books: Beyond Vision, Theorizing Sound Writing, Quiet Ecology, Age of Noise in Britain
Here are four interesting new books on sound you might be interested to explore, in this case mostly covering discussions on sound studies and sonic philosophy. Some of them are already published, others are available for pre-order. The new titles include…
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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…