Hearing the Crimean War: Wartime Sound and the Unmaking of Sense
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2019
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Oxford University Press
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Gavin Williams
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What does sound, whether preserved or lost, tell us about nineteenth-century wartime? Hearing the Crimean War: Wartime Sound and the Unmaking of Sense pursues this question through the many territories affected by the Crimean War, including Britain, France, Turkey, Russia, Italy, Poland, Latvia, Dagestan, Chechnya, and Crimea. Examining the experience of listeners and the politics of archiving sound, it reveals the close interplay between nineteenth-century geographies of empire and the media through which wartime sounds became audible--or failed to do so. The volume explores the dynamics of sound both in violent encounters on the battlefield and in the experience of listeners far-removed from theaters of war, each essay interrogating the Crimean War's sonic archive in order to address a broad set of issues in musicology, ethnomusicology, literary studies, the history of the senses and sound studies.
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Williams, Gavin, ed. 2019. Hearing the Crimean War: Wartime Sound and the Unmaking of Sense. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/hearing-the-crimean-war-9780190916756?cc=pr&lang=en&.