By Martha Feldman and Nicholas Mathew, editors of Representations’s special issue, “Music and Sound at the Edges of History” Most people use music and sound to understand their worlds without needing professional …
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By Lawrence Kramer, author of The Hum of the World: A Philosophy of Listening Sound in recent years has escaped its traditionally subordinate relationship to sight and become the object of widespread …
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By Lawrence Kramer, author of Musical Meaning: Toward a Critical History In his classic study of perception, the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty describes the experience of listening to a classical sonata, which …
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