Listening is a social process. Even apparently trivial acts of
listening are expert performances of acquired cognitive and bodily
habits. Contemporary scholars acknowledge this fact with the notion
that there are "auditory cultures." In the fourth century BCE,
Greek philosophers recognized a similar phenomenon in music, which
they treated as a privileged site for the cultural manufacture of
sensory capabilities, and proof that in a traditional culture
perception could be ordered, regular, and reliable. This
approachable and elegantly written book tells the story of how
music became a vital topic for understanding the senses and their
role in the creation of knowledge. Focussing in particular on
discussions of music and sensation in Plato and Aristoxenus, Sean
Gurd explores a crucial early chapter in the history of hearing and
gently raises critical questions about how aesthetic traditionalism
and sensory certainty can be joined together in a mutually
reinforcing symbiosis.
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