{"product_id":"the-hum-of-the-world-9780520303492","title":"The Hum of the World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Summing Up: Recommended.\"  * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003eAn Alex Ross \"Bookshelf\" recommendation  * The Rest is Noise *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Hum of the World\u003c\/i\u003e is a more-than-intriguing read and definitely one that will get you thinking about the role of sound within a cosmic context. . . . Recommended.\" * Journal of the Association of Anglican Musicians *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrelude\u003cbr\u003e Sound and Knowledge\u003cbr\u003e The Audiable: An Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Some Leitmotifs\u003cbr\u003e The Standard of Vision\u003cbr\u003e A Philosophy of Listening?\u003cbr\u003e Constructive Description\u003cbr\u003e Sight, Sound, and Language\u003cbr\u003e The Sound of Words\u003cbr\u003e Seeing, Saying, and Hearing\u003cbr\u003e The Audiable: Variations on a Theme\u003cbr\u003e Music in the Air\u003cbr\u003e “No Sound without Music”\u003cbr\u003e Language and the Human\u003cbr\u003e Lord Bacon’s Echoes\u003cbr\u003e Ripple Effects: Distant Voices\u003cbr\u003e The Infinite Broadcast\u003cbr\u003e Immanence\u003cbr\u003e Reading Transfigured: St. Augustine\u003cbr\u003e To the Life: The Image\u003cbr\u003e Moving Pictures\u003cbr\u003e Modern Times: The Cartoon\u003cbr\u003e The Sound of Meaning\u003cbr\u003e Music and the Audiable: A Suite in Three Movements\u003cbr\u003e Plato’s Singing School\u003cbr\u003e Musical Synesthesia\u003cbr\u003e The Music of Language\u003cbr\u003e The Soundscape\u003cbr\u003e Song\u003cbr\u003e Noise and Silence\u003cbr\u003e Fish, Flesh, or Fowl\u003cbr\u003e Sensory Hybrids\u003cbr\u003e “Waiting to Be the Music”\u003cbr\u003e Circle Songs\u003cbr\u003e Forty-Part Motets\u003cbr\u003e The Ether\u003cbr\u003e Elemental Media\u003cbr\u003e Elemental Fluids\u003cbr\u003e Writing the Soundscape\u003cbr\u003e Haunting Melodies\u003cbr\u003e The Lifelike: The Undead\u003cbr\u003e Beyond Words? 1\u003cbr\u003e The Audiable and the Audible\u003cbr\u003e Into Silence\u003cbr\u003e Enchantments of the Name\u003cbr\u003e The Inaudible\u003cbr\u003e On Saying “I am”\u003cbr\u003e The Shriek\u003cbr\u003e Metal\u003cbr\u003e Here Comes That Song Again\u003cbr\u003e The Mirror of Silence\u003cbr\u003e Rhythmic Hearing\u003cbr\u003e Media All the Way Down\u003cbr\u003e The Auditory Window\u003cbr\u003e Cacophony: Dispossession (Beckett)\u003cbr\u003e Euphony: Repossession (Beckett)\u003cbr\u003e Worldly Dissonance\u003cbr\u003e Sounds of Battle: The Civil War\u003cbr\u003e Sounds of Battle: World War I\u003cbr\u003e Ulysses in Auschwitz\u003cbr\u003e Intermezzo\u003cbr\u003e Sounding Bodies\u003cbr\u003e Pandemonium?\u003cbr\u003e Songs of Entropy\u003cbr\u003e By Hand\u003cbr\u003e Past and Present\u003cbr\u003e Consciousness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402917650775,"sku":"9780520303492","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520303492.jpg?v=1730481842","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-hum-of-the-world-9780520303492","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}