Description
About the Author
J. Martin Daughtry is an associate professor of ethnomusicology and sound studies at New York University. His work centers on acoustic violence; voice; listening; sound studies; the Iraq war, and musics of the Russian-speaking world. Daughtry is co-editor, with Jonathan Ritter, of Music in the Post-9/11 World (Routledge 2007), and has published essays in Social Text, Ethnomusicology, Music and Politics, Russian Literature, Poetics Today, and a number of edited collections.
Reviews
To say that Listening to War is ground-breaking, penetrating, and vitally important doesn't begin to convey the affective and intellectual impact of engaging with this work. More than challenging music and sound apprehension and scholarship, the book offers painful, visceral access to the ways in which ears suffer, bodies suffer, places suffer in wartime. There is no escape into abstraction or aestheticization here. It's shattering, from the very beginning... * Norie Neumark, University of Melbourne, Journal of Sonic Studies *
Apart from its own awe-inspiring comprehensiveness, the book provides a foundation for continued exploration of such emergent fields as cognitive ecology, extended mind theory, and the relationship between gesture and cognition. * Bruce Johnson, Journal of the American Musicological Society *
Listening to War is an original if deeply idiosyncratic book. * Gavin Williams, Music and Letters *
Awards
Winner of Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award for Music & the Performing Arts.
Book Information
ISBN 9780199361496
Author J. Martin Daughtry
Format Hardback
Page Count 360
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 680g
Dimensions(mm) 157mm * 236mm * 31mm