Title Thinking with sound : a new program in the sciences and humanities around 1900 / Viktoria Tkaczyk

Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (311 pages) Contents Introduction : disciplining auditory cognition -- The sonic unconscious : neuropathology and psychoanalysis -- Auditory images : linguistics and metaphysics -- Sound as a comparative object : physics meets psychology -- Aural attention : muscle feelings and the quest for authority in the arts -- New brains, ears, and tongues : disciplines of language planning -- Conclusion : time leaps Summary 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 Notes Print version record Subject Psychoacoustics -- Europe -- History -- 19th century Psychoacoustics -- Europe -- History -- 20th century Auditory perception -- Research -- Europe -- History -- 19th century Auditory perception -- Research -- Europe -- History -- 20th century Sound -- Research -- Europe -- History -- 19th century Sound -- Research -- Europe -- History -- 20th century Science -- Social aspects -- Europe Technology -- Social aspects -- Europe Science and the humanities -- Europe MUSIC / General. Auditory perception -- Research Psychoacoustics Science and the humanities Science -- Social aspects Sound -- Research Technology -- Social aspects Music. Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences. Health and Wellbeing. Europe Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 0226823296 9780226823294

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