In this fascinating collection of essays, an international group of scholars explores the sonic consequences of transcultural contact in the early modern period.
They examine how cultural configurations of sound impacted communication, comprehension, and the categorisation of people.
Addressing questions of identity, difference, sound, and subjectivity in global early modernity, these authors share the conviction that the body itself is the most intimate of contact zones, and that the cultura.
Open Book Publishers Acoustemologies in contact: sounding subjects and modes of listening in early modernity, hardcover/emily wilbourne
