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Acoustics of empire : sound, media, and power in the long nineteenth century /

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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...

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Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Other Authors: McMurray, Peter L. (Editor), Mukhopadhyay, Priyasha, 1988- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Subjects:
Sound > Political aspects > History > 19th century.
Sound > Social aspects > History > 19th century.
Sound in mass media.
Communication > Social aspects > History > 19th century.
Son dans les médias.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Imperial Sounds, c.1797 / Peter McMurray and Priyasha Mukhopadhyay
  • Part I. Infrastructure and Cities
  • 1. Grappling All Day: Toward 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: Traffice 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 Jugalbandī: 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 US 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. pēē ä wēē, an Outrageous Clatter, and Other Sounds of Acclimatization / Alexandra Hui
  • 13. Gandhi's Silence / Faisal Devji
  • Afterword: Sound in the Imperial Archive / Elleke Boehmer.