1st Edition
Cultural Histories of Noise, Sound and Listening in Europe, 1300-1918
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.
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Kirsten Gibson, ian Biddle
"The volume as a whole shows the significance of sonic experience in the history of
embodied perception and of religious identity." -- Aimée Boutin, Florida State University, H-France Review"The editors enable generous and individualized tours through the volume, mapping an open blueprint for sound studies and cultural history in the process." -- Andrea F. Bohlman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, EuropeNow
