Hearing the Crimean War

Wartime Sound and the Unmaking of Sense

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-02-21
Mått:239 x 160 x 22 mm
Vikt:680 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:324
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780190916749
Utmärkelser:Winner of the RMA/Cambridge University Press Outstanding Edited Collection Book Prize for 2020

Utforska kategorier

Musikvetenskap inom Kultur
Klassisk musik, konstmusik och orkestermusik inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Gavin Williams is a musicologist and Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at King's College London. He wrote a PhD dissertation at Harvard University on sound and media in Milan ca. 1900, and was then a postdoctoral fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge. He has published articles and book chapters on Futurist music, Italian opera and ballet, and soundscapes in nineteenth-century London, and is currently writing a book on the imperial geographies of recorded sound during the first half of the twentieth century.

Recensioner i media

This focused collection of essays explores the soundscapes of the Crimean War from an admirably diverse range of disciplinary and geographical perspectives. In doing so, it not only offers an ambitious rethinking of the transnational phenomenon of the Crimean War but also serves as a ground-breaking exemplar for the historical study of aurality.

Innehållsförteckning

List of ContributorsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Sound Unmade Gavin Williams Sound, Technology, Sense 1. Sympathy and Synaesthesia: Tolstoy's Place in the Intellectual History of Cosmopolitan SpectatorshipDina Gusejnova 2. The Revolution Will Not Be Telegraphed: Shari'a Law as Mediascape Peter McMurray 3. Gunfire and London's Media Reality: Listening to Distance between Piano, Newspaper and TheaterGavin Williams 4. Overhearing Indigenous Silence: Crimean Tatars during the Crimean WarMaria Sonevytsky Voice at the Border 5. Orienting the Martial: Polish Legion Songs on the MapAndrea Bohlman 6. Who Sings the Song of the Russian Soldier? Listening for the Sounds and Silence of War in Baltic RussiaKevin C. Karnes 7. A voice that carriesDelia Casadei Wartime as Heard 8. Operatic Battlefields, Theater of WarFlora Willson 9. Earwitness: Sound and Sense-Making in Tolstoy's Sevastopol StoriesAlyson Tapp 10. InConsequence: 1853-6Hillel Schwarz Bibliography Index