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How the ear came to play a central role in modern culture and rationality.
Reason and Resonance
a history of modern aurality
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424 pages
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22 October 2014
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Summary
How the ear came to play a central role in modern culture and rationality. Hearing has traditionally been regarded as the second sense-as somehow less rational and less modern than the first sense, sight. Reason and Resonance explodes this myth by reconstructing the process through which the ear came to play a central role in modern culture and rationality. For the past four hundred years, hearing has been understood as involving the sympathetic resonance between the vibrating air and vari…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781935408055 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1935408054 |
| Author: | Veit Erlmann |
| Publisher: | Zone Books |
| Imprint: | Zone Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 424 |
| Release Date: | 22 October 2014 |
| Weight: | 736g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 38mm |
| Series: | Reason and Resonance |
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Veit Erlmann
Veit Erlmann holds the Endowed Chair of Music History at the University of Texas at Austin’s Butler School of Music.
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