"[A] glorious guide to the miracle of life's sound." -The New York
Times Book Review A lyrical exploration of the diverse sounds of
our planet, the creative processes that produced these marvels, and
the perils that sonic diversity now faces We live on a planet alive
with song, music, and speech. David Haskell explores how these
wonders came to be. In rain forests shimmering with insect sound
and swamps pulsing with frog calls we learn about evolution's
creative powers. From birds in the Rocky Mountains and on the
streets of Paris, we discover how animals learn their songs and
adapt to new environments. Below the waves, we hear our kinship to
beings as different as snapping shrimp, toadfish, and whales. In
the startlingly divergent sonic vibes of the animals of different
continents, we experience the legacies of plate tectonics, the deep
history of animal groups and their movements around the world, and
the quirks of aesthetic evolution. Starting with the origins of
animal song and traversing the whole arc of Earth history, Haskell
illuminates and celebrates the emergence of the varied sounds of
our world. In mammoth ivory flutes from Paleolithic caves, violins
in modern concert halls, and electronic music in earbuds, we learn
that human music and language belong within this story of ecology
and evolution. Yet we are also destroyers, now silencing or
smothering many of the sounds of the living Earth. Haskell takes us
to threatened forests, noise-filled oceans, and loud city streets,
and shows that sonic crises are not mere losses of sensory
ornament. Sound is a generative force, and so the erasure of sonic
diversity makes the world less creative, just, and beautiful. The
appreciation of the beauty and brokenness of sound is therefore an
important guide in today's convulsions and crises of change and
inequity. Sounds Wild and Broken is an invitation to listen,
wonder, belong, and act.
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