Hearing the Crimean War : wartime sound and the unmaking of sense /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Williams, Gavin, 1986- (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Subjects:	Crimean War, 1853-1856 > Music and the war. Music > Political aspects > History > 19th century. Sound > Political aspects > History > 19th century. Musique > Aspect politique > Histoire > 19e siècle. MUSIC > Instruction & Study > Theory. Music and war Music > Political aspects 1800-1899 Electronic books. History
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Table of Contents:

Introduction. Sound unmade / Gavin Williams
Sound, technology, sense. Sympathy and synaesthesia: Tolstoy's place in the intellectual history of cosmopolitan spectatorship / Dina Gusejnova ; The revolution will not be telegraphed : shari'a law as mediascape / Peter McMurray ; Gunfire and London's media reality : listening to distance between piano, newspaper and theater / Gavin Williams ; Overhearing indigenous silence : Crimean Tatars during the Crimean war / Maria Sonevytsky
Voice at the border. Orienting the martial : Polish legion songs on the map / Andrea Bohlman ; Who sings the song of the Russian soldier? Listening for the sounds and silence of war in Baltic Russia / Kevin C. Karnes ; A voice that carries / Delia Casadei
Wartime as heard. Operatic battlefields, theater of war / Flora Willson ; Earwitness : sound and sense-making in Tolstoy's Sevastopol stories / Alyson Tapp ; Inconsequence : 1853-6 / Hillel Schwarz.