Thinking with Sound: A New Program in the Sciences and Humanities around 1900 - Hardcover

Tkaczyk, Viktoria

 
9780226823287: Thinking with Sound: A New Program in the Sciences and Humanities around 1900
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0226823288 ISBN 13: 9780226823287
Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2023

Synopsis

Thinking with Sound traces the formation of auditory knowledge in the sciences and humanities in the decades around 1900.
 
When the outside world is silent, all sorts of sounds often come to mind: inner voices, snippets of past conversations, imaginary debates, beloved and unloved melodies. What should we make of such sonic companions? Thinking with Sound investigates a period when these and other newly perceived aural phenomena prompted a far-reaching debate. Through case studies from Paris, Vienna, and Berlin, Viktoria Tkaczyk shows that the identification of the auditory cortex in late nineteenth-century neuroanatomy affected numerous academic disciplines across the sciences and humanities. “Thinking with sound” allowed scholars and scientists to bridge the gaps between theoretical and practical knowledge, and between academia and the social, aesthetic, and industrial domains. As new recording technologies prompted new scientific questions, new auditory knowledge found application in industry and the broad aesthetic realm. Through these conjunctions, Thinking with Sound offers a deeper understanding of today’s second “acoustic turn” in science and scholarship.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

Viktoria Tkaczyk is professor in the musicology and media studies department at Humboldt University Berlin, specializing in media and knowledge techniques. She is the author of an award-winning German book on the history of flight fantasies and has coauthored several publications in both German and English. Most recently, she coedited Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality with Alexandra Hui and Mara Mills.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Publication date
2023
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0226823288
ISBN 13 
9780226823287
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
304