Cultural Histories of Noise, Sound and Listening in Europe, 1300-1918 (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Gibson, Kirsten; Biddle, Ian

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Presents a range of historical case studies on the sounding worlds of the European past. The chapters in this volume explore ways of thinking about sound historically, and seek to understand how people have understood and negotiated their relationships with the sounding world in Europe from the Middle Ages through to the early twentieth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317156420
• Artikelnr.: 47140363

Autorenporträt

Kirsten Gibson, ian Biddle

Inhaltsangabe

General Introduction Ian Biddle and Kirsten Gibson
Part 1: Historicizing Aurality
Introduction Ian Biddle and Kirsten Gibson
1.'Sowndys and melodiis': Perceptions of Sound and Music in Late Medieval
England Lisa Colton
2. The Physiologist at the Opera - Claude Perrault's Du bruit (1680) and
the Politics of Pleasure in the Ancien Régime Veit Erlmann
3. Georges Kastner's Les Voix de Paris (1857): A Study in Musical Flânerie
Emily Laurance
4. Refashioning Rhythm: Hearing, Acting and Reacting to Metronomic Sound in
Experimental Psychology and Beyond, c.1875-1920 Alexander Bonus
Part 2: Sound Politics
Introduction Ian Biddle and Kirsten Gibson
5. Orphée at the Forains: Silencing and Silences in Old Regime France Hedy
Law
6. Sound as Promise and Threat: Drumming, Collective Violence and Colonial
Law in British Ceylon Jim Sykes
7. Cannons, Church Bells and Colonial Policies: The Soundscape in Habsburg
Bosnia-Herzegovina Risto Pekka Pennanen
Part 3: Urban Soundscapes of Europe
Introduction Ian Biddle and Kirsten Gibson
8. City Life and Music for Secular Entertainment in the Empire of
Maximilian I Helen Coffey
9. Sonic Afterworld: Mapping the Soundscape of Heaven and Hell in Early
Modern Cities Daniele V. Filippi
10. The Sounds of the City, 1598: Everard Guilpin's London in Skialetheia
Adam Hansen
11. The Soundscape of the City in the Nineteenth Century Olivier Balaÿ
12. Porosity and Modernity: Lisbon's Soundscape from 1864-1908 Joao Silva.
Bibliography
Index