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Creatures of the air : music, Atlantic spirits, breath, 1817-1913
- Title
- Creatures of the air : music, Atlantic spirits, breath, 1817-1913 / J. Q. Davies.
- Author
- Davies, J. Q., 1973-
- Publication
- Chicago, IL : The University of Chicago Press, 2023.
- ©2023
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- Description
- x, 280 pages : illustrations, maps, plans, music; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "From the sounds of West Central African harps to the sounds of the European J. S. Bach revival, Creatures of the Air is a nineteenth-century music history told as a history of the art's elemental media system, air. Air is here understood as a human domain and music as an art of that domain, as such embedded in histories of environmental and colonial struggle around a thickened consciousness of the air and of breathing itself. The narrative moves across malarial equatorial climates and polluted industrial ones; the loss and recovery of the human voice in hazardous environmental conditions; scenes of suffocation and breathing mirrored in the creation and performance of Mendelssohn's enormous Elijah oratorio. No longer just an innocent luxury, by its claim to invisibility music is shown to be implicated in the struggle for control over air as a most precious natural resource. What emerges is a complex political ecology where differentiated musical systems combined, struggled against, and co-constituted one another in the course of the global nineteenth century and beyond"--
- Series Statement
- New material histories of music
- Uniform Title
- New material histories of music.
- Subject
- Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847
- Schweitzer, Albert, 1875-1965 > Travel > Gabon
- Schweitzer, Albert, 1875-1965
- Elias (Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix)
- 1800-1899
- Music > Environmental aspects > History > 19th century
- Ecomusicology
- Air
- Respiration
- Ethnomusicology > Gabon > History > 19th century
- Singing > History > 19th century
- Music and technology > History > 19th century
- Black people > Brazil > Belém > Music > 19th century > History and criticism
- Ethnomusicology
- Music
- Music and technology
- Music > Environmental aspects
- Singing
- Travel
- Black people
- Belém (Brazil) > History > 19th century
- Brazil > History > Empire, 1822-1889
- Brazil
- Brazil > Belém
- Gabon
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Music.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-269) and index.
- Contents
- White "genius" : Ngango, Gabon Estuary, 1817 -- A Falcon under glass : Paris, France, 1838 -- Moral atmospherics in Elijah : Black Country, Britain, 1846-1860 -- Black musics control : Santa Maria de Belém do Grão-Pará, Brazil, 1871 -- A spectral image of breath : New York, United States, 1901 -- Albert Schweitzer's Equatorial Piano : Lambaréné, Gabon, 1913.
- Call Number
- JME 24-179
- ISBN
- 9780226826134
- 0226826139
- 9780226826141 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2022055968
- OCLC
- 1356576760
- Author
- Davies, J. Q., 1973- author.
- Title
- Creatures of the air : music, Atlantic spirits, breath, 1817-1913 / J. Q. Davies.
- Publisher
- Chicago, IL : The University of Chicago Press, 2023.
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- New material histories of musicNew material histories of music.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-269) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Research Call Number
- JME 24-179