Acoustics of Empire
Sound, Media, and Power in the Long Nineteenth Century
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 29 August 2024
- ISBN 9780197553794
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages376 pages
- Size 226x150x27 mm
- Weight 544 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 26 photos 516
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
Music and sound studies have increasingly turned their attention to questions of empire and postcolonial thought in recent years, raising new questions about the forms and circulation of cultural, technological, political, and military power as manifest in and through sound. However, most of this scholarship has focused on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. 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.
Acoustics of Empire provides a cultural history of global acoustics in the Age of Empire. Examining histories of sound, listening practices, and audiovisual technologies of the long nineteenth century through the lens of geopolitical power, the authors recover a sonic history that is irrefutably entangled with questions of imperial power and colonial rule. This volume brings together historians, musicologists, anthropologists, and literary scholars to consider topics ranging from Indian music treatises and vocal practices in Brazil to Egyptian traffic noises and stethoscopes-as-props in South Africa. Across its chapters more broadly, it also draws attention to a period when Euro-American academic disciplines like musicology and linguistics were created, shaped by the imperial contexts in which they emerged. These 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.
The contributors to Acoustics of Empire ask of Sound Studies what Sartre asked of freedom and Said of criticism: to act within the histories that constrain us. Its strength lies in acknowledging that no decolonial project escapes the practico-inert, but that through self-reflexive, contrapuntal listening scholars may begin to expose the structures that formed them. McMurray and Mukhopadhyay's volume stands, then, not as a final word on the colonial condition of Sound Studies, but as a resonant model for how to listen as ethically as possible from within the confines of that condition.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction: Imperial Sounds, c. 1797
Peter McMurray and Priyasha Mukhopadhyay
PART I. INFRASTRUCTURE AND CITIES
1. Grappling All Day: Towards Another History of Telegraphy
Alejandra Bronfman
2. Encounter and Memory in Ottoman Soundscapes: An Audiovisual Album of Street Vendors' Cries
Nazan Maksudyan
3. Listening to Infrastructure: Traffic Noise and Classism in Modern Egypt
Ziad Fahmy
PART II. AURAL EPISTEMOLOGIES
4. Colonial Listening and the Epistemology of Deception: The Stethoscope in Africa
Gavin Steingo
5. Epistemological Jugalbandi: Sound, Science, and the Supernatural in Colonial North India
Richard David Williams
6. Ramendrasundar Tribedi and a Sonic History of Race in Colonial Bengal
Projit Bihari Mukharji
PART III. MUSICAL ENCOUNTERS
7. Cosmopoiesis: Stories Sung of the Equatorial Gulf of Guinea, 1817
James Q. Davies
8. Listening to Korea: Audible Prayers, Boat Songs, and the Aural Possibilities of the U.S. Missionary Archive
Hyun Kyong Hannah Chang
9. Listening through the Operatic Voice in 1820s Rio de Janeiro
Benjamin Walton
10. Ethnography and Exoticism in Nineteenth-Century France
Sindhumathi Revuluri
PART IV. SILENCE AND ITS OTHERS
11. The Anacoustic: Imperial Aurality, Aesthetic Capture, and the Spanish-American War
Jairo Moreno
12. pee ä wee, an Outrageous Clatter, and Other Sounds of Acclimatization
Alexandra Hui
13. Gandhi's Silence
Faisal Devji
Afterword: Sound in the Imperial Archive
Elleke Boehmer
Index
