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The Hum of the World
A Philosophy of Listening
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This title is ideal for readers interested in arts and culture, music theory, philosophy, and those curious about the role of sound in human experience.
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The Hum of the World is an invitation to contemplate what would happen if we heard the world as attentively as we see it. Balancing big ideas, playful wit, and lyrical prose, this imaginative volume identifies the role of sound in Western experience as the primary medium in which the presence and persistence of life acquires tangible form.
The positive experience of aliveness is not merely in accord with sound, but inaccessible, even inconceivable, without it. Lawrence Kramer’s poetic book roves freely over music, media, language, philosophy, and science from the ancient world to the present. Along the way, it reveals how life is apprehended through sounds ranging from pandemonium to the faint background hum of the world.
This warm meditation on auditory culture uncovers the knowledge and pleasure waiting when we learn that the world is alive with sound.
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Recommended by CHOICE, this book has been praised for its intriguing examination of sound within a cosmic context and was highlighted by Alex Ross in The Rest is Noise. The Journal of the Association of Anglican Musicians finds it a thought-provoking and warm meditation on auditory culture.
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ISBN: 9780520303492
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 19 March 2019
Country: United States
Imprint: University of California Press
Illustration: 3 b-w illus.
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 25.0mm
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 499g
Pages: 256
About the Author
Lawrence Kramer, Distinguished Professor of English and Music at Fordham University, is an award-winning composer and the author of fifteen previous books, most of them with University of California Press, including The Thought of Music, winner of the 2017 ASACP Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism.
Also by Lawrence Kramer
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