Cultural Histories of Noise, Sound and Listening in Europe, 1300-1918

Ian Biddle is a cultural theorist and musicologist, working on a range of topics in music- and sound-related areas. He is co-founder and co-ordinating editor of the journal Radical Musicology and is co-convenor, with Beate MA ller, of the Newcastle University Genocide Research Group. His work deals with: the cultural history of music and masculinity; music's intervention in communities and subjectivities; sound, soundscapes and urban experience; the politics of noise. He has interests in Holocaust studies, memory studies, sound studies, Italian workerist and autonomist theory and psychoanalysis. He is author of Music, Masculinity and the Claims of History: The Austro-German Tradition from Hegel to Freud (Ashgate, 2011), editor of Music and Identity Politics (Ashgate, 2012), co-editor, with Kirsten Gibson, of Masculinity and Western Musical Practice (Ashgate, 2009) and co-editor of Sound, Music Affect: Theorizing Sonic Experience (2013). Kirsten Gibson's research has focused on John Dowlanda (TM)s printed songbooks, Elizabethan court politics, early modern musical print culture and discourses of music and masculinity in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Her work appears in Early Music History, Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Renaissance Studies and Early Music as well as in various essay collections. She is co-editor, with Ian Biddle, of Masculinity and Western Musical Practice (Ashgate, 2009).

General Introduction Ian Biddle and Kirsten Gibson

Part 1: Historicizing Aurality

Introduction Ian Biddle and Kirsten Gibson

1.‘Sowndys and melodiis’: Perceptions of Sound and Music in Late Medieval England Lisa Colton

2. The Physiologist at the Opera – Claude Perrault’s Du bruit (1680) and the Politics of Pleasure in the Ancien Régime Veit Erlmann

3. Georges Kastner’s Les Voix de Paris (1857): A Study in Musical Flânerie Emily Laurance

4. Refashioning Rhythm: Hearing, Acting and Reacting to Metronomic Sound in Experimental Psychology and Beyond, c.1875–1920 Alexander Bonus

Part 2: Sound Politics

Introduction Ian Biddle and Kirsten Gibson

5. Orphée at the Forains: Silencing and Silences in Old Regime France Hedy Law

6. Sound as Promise and Threat: Drumming, Collective Violence and Colonial Law in British Ceylon Jim Sykes

7. Cannons, Church Bells and Colonial Policies: The Soundscape in Habsburg Bosnia-Herzegovina Risto Pekka Pennanen

Part 3: Urban Soundscapes of Europe

Introduction Ian Biddle and Kirsten Gibson

8. City Life and Music for Secular Entertainment in the Empire of Maximilian I Helen Coffey

9. Sonic Afterworld: Mapping the Soundscape of Heaven and Hell in Early Modern Cities Daniele V. Filippi

10. The Sounds of the City, 1598: Everard Guilpin’s London in Skialetheia Adam Hansen

11. The Soundscape of the City in the Nineteenth Century Olivier Balaÿ

12. Porosity and Modernity: Lisbon’s Soundscape from 1864–1908 Joao Silva.

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Index