The Hum of the World
A Philosophy of Listening
A masterpiece.—Michael Klein, author of Music and the Crises of the Modern Subject This book is a meditation on the ways in which sound both permeates life and mediates our experience of living. In distinct and poetic language, Kramer argues that the practice of meaning making is rooted in and swells out of sound.—Nina Eidsheim, author of The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music The Hum of the World opens our ears to the primacy of sound. Dispelling the enduring myth that knowledge is inherently visual, it is a triumphant celebration of music and language as the forces that give shape to the world by drama…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-520-38299-2
- EAN: 9780520382992
- Produktnummer: 34697682
- Verlag: University Presses
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.5 cm 499 g
- Abbildungen: 3 b-w illus.
- Gewicht: 499
Über den Autor
Lawrence Kramer, Distinguished Professor of English and Music at Fordham University, is an award-winning composer and the author of fifteen previous books, most of them with University of California Press, including The Thought of Music, winner of the 2017 ASACP Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism.
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