Animal Musicalities (eBook)

Birds, Beasts, and Evolutionary Listening

Rachel Mundy (Autor)

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2018
Wesleyan University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8195-7808-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Over the past century and a half, the voices and bodies of animals have been used by scientists and music experts as a benchmark for measures of natural difference. Animal Musicalities traces music's taxonomies from Darwin to digital bird guides to show how animal song has become the starting point for enduring evaluations of species, races, and cultures. By examining the influential efforts made by a small group of men and women to define human diversity in relation to animal voices, this book raises profound questions about the creation of modern human identity, and the foundations of modern humanism.

Autor

RACHEL MUNDY is an assistant professor of music in the arts, culture, and media program at Rutgers University in Newark. She specializes in twentieth-century sonic culture with interests at the juncture of music, the history of science, and animal studies. Mundy's current work relocates contemporary posthumanism and critical philosophy as the refrain of a century-long encounter with changing boundaries between species, race, and culture.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments
Introduction
PERSONHOOD
Why Do Birds Sing? And Other Tales
IDENTITY, DIFFERENCE, AND KNOWLEDGE
Collecting Silence: The Sonic Specimen
Collecting Songs, Avian and African
Songs on the Dissecting Table
POSTMODERN HUMANITY, SUBJECTIVITY, AND PARADISE
Postmodern Humanity
Listening for Objectivity
The Rose Garden
The Animanities
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.6.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Music / Culture
• Reihe/Serie: Music / Culture
• Reihe/Serie: Music/Culture
• Verlagsort: Middletown
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Schlagworte: animal music • animal song • Animal Studies • Birdsong • Bird Song • Critical Race Studies • Ethnomusicology • Gender and Sexuality • history of animal behaviorism • history of ethology • History of Eugenics • history of genetics • History of Science and Technology • music • musicology/ethnomusicology • Nature - Birds • posthumanism • Sound Studies
• ISBN-10: 0-8195-7808-8 / 0819578088
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-7808-2 / 9780819578082