Description
| Product ID: | 9780190916749 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Hearing the Crimean War |
| Subtitle: | Wartime Sound and the Unmaking of Sense |
| Authors: | Author: Gavin Williams |
| Page Count: | 324 |
| Subjects: | Theory of music and musicology, Theory of music & musicology, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Hearing the Crimean War: Wartime Sound and the Unmaking of Sense examines the experience of listeners and the politics of archiving sound throughout the many territories affected by the Crimean War, revealing the close interplay between nineteenth-century geographies of empire and the media through which wartime sounds became audible--or failed to do so. What does sound, whether preserved or lost, tell us about nineteenth-century wartime? Hearing the Crimean War: Wartime Sound and the Unmaking of Sense pursues this question through the many territories affected by the Crimean War, including Britain, France, Turkey, Russia, Italy, Poland, Latvia, Dagestan, Chechnya, and Crimea. Examining the experience of listeners and the politics of archiving sound, it reveals the close interplay between nineteenth-century geographies of empire and the media through which wartime sounds became audible--or failed to do so. The volume explores the dynamics of sound both in violent encounters on the battlefield and in the experience of listeners far-removed from theaters of war, each essay interrogating the Crimean War''s sonic archive in order to address a broad set of issues in musicology, ethnomusicology, literary studies, the history of the senses and sound studies. |
| Imprint Name: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Publisher Name: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-02-21 |
