Animal Musicalities: Birds, Beasts, and Evolutionary Listening - Couverture souple

Mundy, Rachel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0819500860 ISBN 13 : 9780819500861

Editeur : Wesleyan University Press, 2024

Synopsis

How conflicts between science and the humanities have shaped our understanding of the line between art and animal behavior

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wesleyan University Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0819500860
• ISBN 13: 9780819500861
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 264
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• Personne responsable: non disponible