Women, Science and Sound in Nineteenth-Century France

Ingrid Sykes (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

2007
Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
978-3-631-52989-8 (ISBN)

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This book deals with the substantial role performed by women in the sophisticated scientific and technological environment of nineteenth-century France. In a period marked by both radical experimentation and rich spiritual sensibility, women interacted with the latest acoustical technologies to produce a striking language of sonority that reached a wide popular audience. The author shows that a variety of sonorous spaces containing newly-invented organ models (the teacher-training institution, the convent, and the salon) became significant acoustic laboratories in which women were able to formulate and express their creativity in sound. Rather than inhibiting their freedom of expression, such spaces allowed women to negotiate social convention and mark their own unique contribution to acoustical science.

The Author: Ingrid Sykes is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of Medicine at the University of Warwick. She completed her Ph.D. at City University, London, and received an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship. Her current book project will provide the first account of the historical relationship between the blind and medical acoustics.

lt;i>Contents: Women - History of science - Acoustics - Music - Nineteenth-Century France - Romanticism - Organ.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.8.2007
Reihe/Serie	Interdisziplinäre Studien zur Musik / Interdisciplinary Studies of Music ; 4
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	400 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
Schlagworte	Century • Cultural History • France • Frankreich • Frau • Geschichte 1800-1900 • Hardcover, Softcover / Musik/Musikgeschichte • HC/Musik/Musikgeschichte • history of music • History of Science • Ingrid • Mäkelä • modern French history • nineteenth • Orgel • Science • Sound • Sykes • Tomi • Women • Women's history • Women' s history • Women's history
ISBN-10	3-631-52989-9 / 3631529899
ISBN-13	978-3-631-52989-8 / 9783631529898
Zustand	Neuware