Sonic Circulations ? Music, Modernism, and the Politics of Knowledge
Music, Modernism, and the Politics of Knowledge
Series: Sound in History;
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Product details:
- Publisher MT ? University of Pennsylvania Press
- Date of Publication 5 August 2025
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9781512828030
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 229x152x15 mm
- Weight 666 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 18 b&w halftones, 6 musical examples, 1 graph, 1 table 700
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The role music, sound, and voice played in modern knowledge production in the early twentieth century
Derived from the Latin words circum (round) and ire (to go), a circuit can refer to any bounded area. For contemporary readers, it might evoke the course of an electric current, as well as the flow of global capital. Yet sound?an inherently temporal phenomenon?can only circulate in mediated forms. Tracing the pathways through and by which sound traveled in the early twentieth century, Sonic Circulations not only proposes a new account of the role of music, sound, and voice in modern knowledge production but also poses urgent questions about technology and empire, while also foregrounding the tensions and paradoxes involved in situating the sonic within any fixed regime or system.
Exploring key moments in the development of disciplines including linguistics, sociology, and eugenics, as well as musicology itself, Sonic Circulations explores the many ways that sound has functioned as evidence and information, as both an object and an agent of scientific mastery. Contributors explore the processes by which sound has moved through a variety of conceptual, as well as physical domains, highlighting the richness of historical contingency. This volume shows that circulation happened in many spaces and through many technologies: through sound recording, but also through the trade magazine and in the classroom; through wireless broadcasting and international festivals, but also in the cozy spaces of the suburban home.
Featuring scholars working at the borders of musicology, ethnomusicology, sound studies, and music theory, this volume?s ten chapters and two epilogues illuminate an alternative genealogy of modernism, emphasizing the embeddedness of even the most abstract practices in the structures of imperial modernity.
Contributors: Peter Asimov, Andrea F. Bohlman, Harriet Boyd-Bennett, Alexander W. Cowan, Emily I. Dolan, John Gabriel, Jonathan Hicks, Alexandra Kieffer, Gundula Kreuzer, Deirdre Loughridge, Emily MacGregor, Giles Masters, Arman Schwartz, Danielle Simon, John Tresch.
