Hearing the Crimean War

Wartime Sound and the Unmaking of Sense

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ID8075423
EditorsGavin Williams (0000-0001-8087-0169)
Year2019
Pages328
Publication date2019-01-24
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueHearing the Crimean War (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780190916749.001.0001
OpenAlexW4234120171
Open LibraryOL28697273M
ISBN9780190916749
LanguageEN
Citations received11

This book addresses the sounds of the Crimean War, along with the many ways nineteenth-century wartime is aurally constructed. It examines wide-ranging experiences of listeners in Britain, France, Turkey, Russia, Italy, Poland, Latvia, Daghestan, Chechnya, and Crimea, illustrating the close interplay between nineteenth-century geographies of empire and the modes by which wartime sound was archived and heard. This book covers topics including music in and around war zones, the mediation of wartime sound, the relationship between sound and violence, and the historiography of listening. Individual chapters concern sound in Leo Tolstoy’s wartime writings, and his place within cosmopolitan sensibilities; the role of the telegraph in constructing sonic imaginations in London and the Black Sea region; the absence of archives for the sounds of particular ethnic groups, and how songs preserve memories for both Crimean Tatars and Polish nationalists; the ways in which perceptions of voice rearranged the mental geographies of Baltic Russia, and undermined aspirations to national unity in Italy; Italian opera as a means of conditioning elite perceptions of Crimean battlefields; and historical frames through which to understand the diffusion of violent sounds amid everyday life. The volume engages the academic fields of musicology, ethnomusicology, history, literary studies, sound studies, and the history of the senses

Acoustics · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Elite · Empire · Ethnomusicology · Historiography · Linguistics · Literature · Musical · Opera · Political science · Politics · Serbian · Sound (geography · Spanish Civil War · Diverse Musicological Studies · Musicology and Musical Analysis · 1853-1856 · 19th century · Crimean war · Crimean War (1853-1856) fast (OCoLC)fst00883120 · Crimean War (1853-1856) fast (OCoLC)fst00883120 (uri) http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst00883120 · History · History and criticism · Music · Music and the war · Music and war · Music, history and criticism · Political aspects · Sound · Law · Philosophy

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