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Sound’s hidden role in shaping knowledge, technology, and empire’s rise.
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Sonic Circulations
music, modernism, and the politics of knowledge
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277 pages
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1 September 2025
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Summary
Sonic Circulations: Sound, Knowledge, and Modernity
The role music, sound, and voice played in modern knowledge production in the early twentieth century
Derived from the Latin words circum (round) and ire (to go), a circuit can refer to any bounded area. For contemporary readers, it might evoke the course of an electric current, as well as the flow of global capital. Yet sound—an inherently temporal phenomenon—can only circulate in mediate…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781512828030 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1512828033 |
| Series: | Sound in History |
| Author: | Emily I. Dolan, Emily MacGregor, Arman Schwartz |
| Publisher: | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Imprint: | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 277 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
About The Author
Emily I. Dolan
Emily I. Dolan is Professor of Music at Brown University. Emily MacGregor is Visiting Fellow in Music at King’s College, London. Arman Schwartz is Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
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