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Book SynopsisThere is no place on earth that does not echo with the near or distant sounds of human activity. More than half of humanity lives in cities, meaning the daily soundtrack of our lives is filled with soundwhether it be sonorous, harmonious, melodic, syncopated, discordant, cacophonous, or even screeching. This new anthology aims to explore how humans are placed in certain affective attitudes and dispositions by the music, sounds, and noises that envelop us. ?Sound and Affectmaps a new territory forinquiryat the intersection of music, philosophy,affect theory,and sound studies.The essaysinthis volumeconsiderobjects and experiencesmarked by thecorrelation of sound and affect, in music and beyond: the voice,as it speaks, stutters, cries, or sings; music, whether vocal, instrumental, ormachine-made;andour sonic environments, whether natural orartificial, andhow they provoke responses in us.Farfrom being stable, correlations of sound and affect are influencedand even determinedby factors a
Trade Review“Lochhead, Mendieta, and Smith have assembled a powerful compendium of theoretical and historical essays on sound and affect. This volume represents a synthesis of three rapidly growing areas of new research: affect theory, sound studies, and philosophically inflected music studies.
Sound and Affect will make a significant and lasting impact in many fields. It is the type of publication that will challenge current assumptions about method and stimulate the growth of new forms of inquiry.” * Roger Mathew Grant, Wesleyan University *
“‘Soundscape’ has become a common term, but most actual soundscapes remain unheard with any degree of specificity. This affecting collection helps remedy that state. It offers multiple entry points into what it regards as ‘sonic affective regimes,’ vibratory fields that impact broad swaths of eco-social life.
Sound and Affect covers an astonishing range of topics, figures, and periods. One finds Plato and Ludacris, Proust and Phil Collins, Monk, Deleuze, and the Jesuit Marin Mersenne, and topics swing from desire to labor to the accented voice. Multidisciplinary in the richest sense, the book is a boon for sound studies, the philosophy of music, and musicology, and a primer for those who want to listen better and think more trenchantly about what they hear.” * John Lysaker, Emory University *
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction Judith Lochhead, Eduardo Mendieta, and Stephen Decatur Smith
Part 1. Sounding the Political Chapter 1. Waves of Moderation: The Sound of Sophrosyne in Ancient Greek and Neoliberal Times Robin James
Chapter 2. The Politics of Silence: Heidegger’s
Black NotebooksAdam Knowles
Part 2. Affect, Music, Human Chapter 3. Sign, Affect, and Musicking before the Human Gary Tomlinson
Chapter 4. Human Beginnings and Music: Technology and Embodiment Roles Don Ihde
Chapter 5. The Life and Death of Daniel Barenboim James Currie
Part 3. Voicings and Silencings Chapter 6. The Philosopher’s Voice: The Prosody of Logos Eduardo Mendieta
Chapter 7. Late Capitalism, Affect, and the Algorithmic Self in Music Streaming Platforms Michael Birenbaum Quintero
Part 4. Affective Listenings Chapter 8. Music, Labor, and Technologies of Desire Martin Scherzinger
Chapter 9. Musical Affect, Autobiographical Memory, and Collective Individuation in Thomas Bernhard’s
CorrectionChristopher Haworth
Part 5. Temporalities of Sounding Chapter 10. The “Sound” of Music: Sonic Agency and the Dialectic of Freedom and Constraint in Jazz Improvisation Lorenzo C. Simpson
Chapter 11. Merleau-Ponty on Consciousness and Affect through the Temporal Movement of Music Jessica Wiskus
Chapter 12. A. N. Whitehead, Feeling, and Music: On Some Potential Modifications to Affect Theory Ryan Dohoney
Part 6. Theorizing the Affections Chapter 13. Delivering Affect: Mersenne, Voice, and the Background of Jesuit Rhetorical Theory André de Oliveira Redwood
Chapter 14. Mimesis and the Affective Ground of Baroque Representation Daniel Villegas Vélez
Chapter 15. Affect and the Recording Devices of Seventeenth-Century Italy Emily Wilbourne
Chapter 16. Immanuel Kant and the Downfall of the
AffektenlehreTomás McAuley
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Bibliography
Index
