Sound and Affect
Voice, Music, World
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Sound and Affect
Voice, Music, World
There is no place on earth that does not echo with the near or distant sounds of human activity. More than half of humanity lives in cities, meaning the daily soundtrack of our lives is filled with sound—whether it be sonorous, harmonious, melodic, syncopated, discordant, cacophonous, or even screeching. This new anthology aims to explore how humans are placed in certain affective attitudes and dispositions by the music, sounds, and noises that envelop us.
Sound and Affect maps a new territory for inquiry at the intersection of music, philosophy, affect theory, and sound studies. The essays in this volume consider objects and experiences marked by the correlation of sound and affect, in music and beyond: the voice, as it speaks, stutters, cries, or sings; music, whether vocal, instrumental, or machine-made; and our sonic environments, whether natural or artificial, and how they provoke responses in us. Far from being stable, correlations of sound and affect are influenced and even determined by factors as diverse as race, class, gender, and social and political experience. Examining these factors is key to the project, which gathers contributions from a cross-disciplinary roster of scholars, including both established and new voices. This agenda-setting collection will prove indispensable to anyone interested in innovative approaches to the study of sound and its many intersections with affect and the emotions.
Sound and Affect maps a new territory for inquiry at the intersection of music, philosophy, affect theory, and sound studies. The essays in this volume consider objects and experiences marked by the correlation of sound and affect, in music and beyond: the voice, as it speaks, stutters, cries, or sings; music, whether vocal, instrumental, or machine-made; and our sonic environments, whether natural or artificial, and how they provoke responses in us. Far from being stable, correlations of sound and affect are influenced and even determined by factors as diverse as race, class, gender, and social and political experience. Examining these factors is key to the project, which gathers contributions from a cross-disciplinary roster of scholars, including both established and new voices. This agenda-setting collection will prove indispensable to anyone interested in innovative approaches to the study of sound and its many intersections with affect and the emotions.
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Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part 1. Sounding the Political
Chapter 1. Waves of Moderation: The Sound of Sophrosyne in Ancient Greek and Neoliberal Times
Chapter 2. The Politics of Silence: Heidegger’s Black Notebooks
Part 2. Affect, Music, Human
Chapter 3. Sign, Affect, and Musicking before the Human
Chapter 4. Human Beginnings and Music: Technology and Embodiment Roles
Chapter 5. The Life and Death of Daniel Barenboim
Part 3. Voicings and Silencings
Chapter 6. The Philosopher’s Voice: The Prosody of Logos
Chapter 7. Late Capitalism, Affect, and the Algorithmic Self in Music Streaming Platforms
Part 4. Affective Listenings
Chapter 8. Music, Labor, and Technologies of Desire
Chapter 9. Musical Affect, Autobiographical Memory, and Collective Individuation in Thomas Bernhard’s Correction
Part 5. Temporalities of Sounding
Chapter 10. The “Sound” of Music: Sonic Agency and the Dialectic of Freedom and Constraint in Jazz Improvisation
Chapter 11. Merleau-Ponty on Consciousness and Affect through the Temporal Movement of Music
Chapter 12. A. N. Whitehead, Feeling, and Music: On Some Potential Modifications to Affect Theory
Part 6. Theorizing the Affections
Chapter 13. Delivering Affect: Mersenne, Voice, and the Background of Jesuit Rhetorical Theory
Chapter 14. Mimesis and the Affective Ground of Baroque Representation
Chapter 15. Affect and the Recording Devices of Seventeenth-Century Italy
Chapter 16. Immanuel Kant and the Downfall of the Affektenlehre
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
Judith Lochhead, Eduardo Mendieta, and Stephen Decatur Smith
Part 1. Sounding the Political
Chapter 1. Waves of Moderation: The Sound of Sophrosyne in Ancient Greek and Neoliberal Times
Robin James
Chapter 2. The Politics of Silence: Heidegger’s Black Notebooks
Adam Knowles
Part 2. Affect, Music, Human
Chapter 3. Sign, Affect, and Musicking before the Human
Gary Tomlinson
Chapter 4. Human Beginnings and Music: Technology and Embodiment Roles
Don Ihde
Chapter 5. The Life and Death of Daniel Barenboim
James Currie
Part 3. Voicings and Silencings
Chapter 6. The Philosopher’s Voice: The Prosody of Logos
Eduardo Mendieta
Chapter 7. Late Capitalism, Affect, and the Algorithmic Self in Music Streaming Platforms
Michael Birenbaum Quintero
Part 4. Affective Listenings
Chapter 8. Music, Labor, and Technologies of Desire
Martin Scherzinger
Chapter 9. Musical Affect, Autobiographical Memory, and Collective Individuation in Thomas Bernhard’s Correction
Christopher Haworth
Part 5. Temporalities of Sounding
Chapter 10. The “Sound” of Music: Sonic Agency and the Dialectic of Freedom and Constraint in Jazz Improvisation
Lorenzo C. Simpson
Chapter 11. Merleau-Ponty on Consciousness and Affect through the Temporal Movement of Music
Jessica Wiskus
Chapter 12. A. N. Whitehead, Feeling, and Music: On Some Potential Modifications to Affect Theory
Ryan Dohoney
Part 6. Theorizing the Affections
Chapter 13. Delivering Affect: Mersenne, Voice, and the Background of Jesuit Rhetorical Theory
André de Oliveira Redwood
Chapter 14. Mimesis and the Affective Ground of Baroque Representation
Daniel Villegas Vélez
Chapter 15. Affect and the Recording Devices of Seventeenth-Century Italy
Emily Wilbourne
Chapter 16. Immanuel Kant and the Downfall of the Affektenlehre
Tomás McAuley
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Bibliography
Index
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