Hearing the Crimean War

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-19-091674-9
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 652 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Williams

Williams, Gavin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Romantik (ca. 1830-1900)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- List of Contributors

- List of Illustrations

- Acknowledgements

- Introduction: Sound Unmade

- Gavin Williams

- Sound, Technology, Sense

- 1. Sympathy and Synaesthesia: Tolstoy's Place in the Intellectual History of Cosmopolitan Spectatorship

- Dina 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 Theater

- Gavin Williams

- 4. Overhearing Indigenous Silence: Crimean Tatars during the Crimean War

- Maria Sonevytsky

- Voice at the Border

- 5. Orienting the Martial: Polish Legion Songs on the Map

- Andrea Bohlman

- 6. Who Sings the Song of the Russian Soldier? Listening for the Sounds and Silence of War in Baltic Russia

- Kevin C. Karnes

- 7. A voice that carries

- Delia Casadei

- Wartime as Heard

- 8. Operatic Battlefields, Theater of War

- Flora Willson

- 9. Earwitness: Sound and Sense-Making in Tolstoy's Sevastopol Stories

- Alyson Tapp

- 10. InConsequence: 1853-6

- Hillel Schwarz

- Bibliography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.