Book ID: CBB252246829

Animal Musicalities: Birds, Beasts, and Evolutionary Listening (2018)

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Mundy, Rachel (Author)


Wesleyan University Press


Publication Date: 2018
Physical Details: 264
Language: English

Over the past century and a half, the voices and bodies of animals have been used by scientists and music experts as a benchmark for measures of natural difference. Animal Musicalities traces music's taxonomies from Darwin to digital bird guides to show how animal song has become the starting point for enduring evaluations of species, races, and cultures. By examining the influential efforts made by a small group of men and women to define human diversity in relation to animal voices, this book raises profound questions about the creation of modern human identity, and the foundations of modern humanism.

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Authors & Contributors
Alexander Aisher
Lorena Córdoba
Ana María Ochoa Gautier
Overhoff, Jürgen
Vida Javidi
Jean-Baptiste Pettier
Concepts
Natural history
Animals
Nature and its relationship to culture; human-nature relationships
Biological diversity; biodiversity
Birds
Ornithology
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
21st century
20th century, late
Places
Singapore
Indonesia
London (England)
South America
Malay; Malaysia
Australia
Institutions
Cornell University, Laboratory of Ornithology
Cornell Library of Natural Sounds
Natural History Museum (London, England)
Cornell University
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