Unsound Supplies: Noisy Matter and the Making of Modern Soundscapes
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Availability:In StockContributor:Fanny Gribenski (Editor), David Pantalony (Editor), Viktoria Tkaczyk (Editor)Series:Critical Conjunctures in Music and SoundPublish date:12/15/2025Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780197814581ISBN-10:197814581UPC:9780197814581Book Category:MusicBook Subcategory:Ethnomusicology, Business AspectsSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCM9VR5BJ2
Unsound Supplies: Noisy Matter and the Making of Modern Soundscapes
Unsound Supplies explores the complex and often hidden provenance of the raw materials that underpin the rich musical cultures of modernity. Each of the book's ten chapters focuses on one material used in musical instrument making and the audio communications industry in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries--from African ivory and transatlantically traded rubber to Manila paper,...
Series: Critical Conjunctures in Music and Sound
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780197814581ISBN-10:197814581UPC:9780197814581Book Category:MusicBook Subcategory:Ethnomusicology, Business AspectsSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCM9VR5BJ2
Fanny Gribenski is Assistant Professor of Music at New York University. She is the author of L'Église comme lieu de concert (2019) and Tuning the World (2023). Her current research examines the relationships between musical instruments, ecology, and empire. Gribenski has been a fellow of the Thiers Foundation, the Fulbright Commission, and the Huntington Library, and has worked as a research...
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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