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A Cultural History of Sound, Memory and the Senses (Hardcover)
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A Cultural History of Sound, Memory and the Senses (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
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The past 20 years have witnessed a turn towards the sensuous,
particularly the aural, as a viable space for critical exploration
in History and other Humanities disciplines. This has been informed
by a heightened awareness of the role that the senses play in
shaping modern identity and understanding of place; and
increasingly, how the senses are central to the memory of past
experiences and their representation. The result has been a
broadening of our historical imagination, which has previously
taken the visual for granted and ignored the other senses.
Considering how crucial the auditory aspect of life has been, a
shift from seeing to hearing past societies offers a further
perspective for examining the complexity of historical events and
experiences. Historians in many fields have begun to listen to the
past, developing new arguments about the history and the memory of
sensory experience. This volume builds on scholarship produced over
the last twenty years and explores these dimensions by coupling the
history of sound and the senses in distinctive ways: through a
study of the sound of violence; the sound of voice mediated by
technologies and the expression of memory through the senses.
Though sound is the most developed field in the study of the
sensorium, many argue that each of the senses should not be studied
in isolation from each other, and for this reason, the final
section incorporates material which emphasizes the sense as
relational.
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