Thinking with Sound
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-82328-7 (ISBN)
When the outside world is silent, all sorts of sounds often come to mind: inner voices, snippets of past conversations, imaginary debates, beloved and unloved melodies. What should we make of such sonic companions? Thinking with Sound investigates a period when these and other newly perceived aural phenomena prompted a far-reaching debate. Through case studies from Paris, Vienna, and Berlin, Viktoria Tkaczyk shows that the identification of the auditory cortex in late nineteenth-century neuroanatomy affected numerous academic disciplines across the sciences and humanities. “Thinking with sound” allowed scholars and scientists to bridge the gaps between theoretical and practical knowledge, and between academia and the social, aesthetic, and industrial domains. As new recording technologies prompted new scientific questions, new auditory knowledge found application in industry and the broad aesthetic realm. Through these conjunctions, Thinking with Sound offers a deeper understanding of today’s second “acoustic turn” in science and scholarship.
Viktoria Tkaczyk is professor in the musicology and media studies department at Humboldt University Berlin, specializing in media and knowledge techniques. She is the author of an award-winning German book on the history of flight fantasies and has coauthored several publications in both German and English. Most recently, she coedited Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality with Alexandra Hui and Mara Mills.
List of Illustrations
1. Introduction: Disciplining Auditory Cognition
2. The Sonic Unconscious: Neuropathology and Psychoanalysis
3. Auditory Images: Linguistics and Metaphysics
4. Sound as a Comparative Object: Physics Meets Psychology
5. Aural Attention: Muscle Feelings and the Quest for Authority in the Arts
6. New Brains, Ears, and Tongues: Disciplines of Language Planning
7. Conclusion: Time Leaps
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.01.2023 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 58 halftones |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 567 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik |
| ISBN-10 | 0-226-82328-8 / 0226823288 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-226-82328-7 / 9780226823287 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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