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Hum of the World

Lawrence Kramer
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      The Hum of the World is an invitation to contemplate what would happen if we heard the world as attentively as we see it. Balancing big ideas, playful wit and lyrical prose, this imaginative volume identifies the role of sound in Western experience as the primary medium in which the presence and persistence of life acquires tangible form. The positive experience of aliveness is not merely in accord with sound, but inaccessible, even inconceivable, without it. Lawrence Kramer’s poetic book roves freely over music, media, language, philosophy, and science from the ancient world to the present, along the way revealing how life is apprehended through sounds ranging from pandemonium to the faint background hum of the world. This warm meditation on auditory culture uncovers the knowledge and pleasure waiting when we learn that the world is alive with sound.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Lawrence Kramer EAN: 9780520382992 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 363 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: University of California Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2021-06-22 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, MUSIC / History & Criticism, MUSIC / Philosophy & Social Aspects, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Language WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      Theory of music and musicology, Music reviews and criticism, Philosophy of language, Literary essays, Literary studies: general, Social and political philosophy

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      Lawrence Kramer, Distinguished Professor of English and Music at Fordham University, is an award-winning composer and the author of fifteen previous books including The Thought of Music, winner of the 2017 ASACP Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism.  
      The Hum of the World is an invitation to contemplate what would happen if we heard the world as attentively as we see it. Balancing big ideas, playful wit and lyrical prose, this imaginative volume identifies the role of sound in Western experience as the primary medium in which the presence and persistence of life acquires tangible form. The positive experience of aliveness is not merely in accord with sound, but inaccessible, even inconceivable, without it. Lawrence Kramer’s poetic book roves freely over music, media, language, philosophy, and science from the ancient world to the present, along the way revealing how life is apprehended through sounds ranging from pandemonium to the faint background hum of the world. This warm meditation on auditory culture uncovers the knowledge and pleasure waiting when we learn that the world is alive with sound.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Lawrence Kramer EAN: 9780520382992 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 363 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: University of California Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2021-06-22 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, MUSIC / History & Criticism, MUSIC / Philosophy & Social Aspects, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Language WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      Theory of music and musicology, Music reviews and criticism, Philosophy of language, Literary essays, Literary studies: general, Social and political philosophy

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      Lawrence Kramer, Distinguished Professor of English and Music at Fordham University, is an award-winning composer and the author of fifteen previous books including The Thought of Music, winner of the 2017 ASACP Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism.  

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