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Format	Hardback
Published	June 5, 2018
ISBN-13	9780819578068
Language	English
Pages	264
Height	9.00 Inches (US)
Width	6.00 Inches (US)
Unit weight	1.25 Pounds (US)
List Prices	$29.95 USD, £21.95 GBP
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Format	Electronic book text
Published	June 5, 2018
ISBN-13	9780819578082
Print Edition	9780819578068
Language	English
Pages	264
Height	9.00 Inches (US)
Width	6.00 Inches (US)
List Prices	$23.99 USD, £17.95 GBP
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Animal Musicalities

Name: Animal Musicalities
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Author: Rachel Mundy
ISBN: 9780819578068

Birds, Beasts, and Evolutionary Listening

By Rachel Mundy

Wesleyan University Press

How conflicts between science and the humanities have shaped our understanding of the line between art and animal behavior

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.

About the Author

RACHEL MUNDY is an assistant professor of music in the arts, culture, and media program at Rutgers University in Newark. She specializes in twentieth-century sonic culture with interests at the juncture of music, the history of science, and animal studies. Mundy's current work relocates contemporary posthumanism and critical philosophy as the refrain of a century-long encounter with changing boundaries between species, race, and culture.

Endorsements

"This imaginative book brings together musicology, science and technology studies, and animal studies in exciting ways that will be of interest to scholars in a variety disciplines."—Jane Desmond, author of Displaying Death and Animating Life

"This imaginative book brings together musicology, science and technology studies, and animal studies in exciting ways that will be of interest to scholars in a variety disciplines."—Jane Desmond, author of Displaying Death and Animating Life

"How deep are the connections between birdsong and human music? And why should we care? This fascinating and challenging book charts changing answers to these questions from the time of Darwin and Spencer to the present as it makes a compelling case for the study of culture in a more-than-human world."—Gregory Radick, author of The Simian Tongue: The Long Debate about Animal Language

Publisher	Wesleyan University Press
Series	Music / Culture
BISAC Subject Headings	MUSIC / General (146 Titles) MUSIC / Ethnomusicology (21 Titles) NATURE / Animals / Birds (13 Titles)

Format	Hardback
Published	June 5, 2018
ISBN-13	9780819578068
Language	English
Pages	264
Height	9.00 Inches (US)
Width	6.00 Inches (US)
Unit weight	1.25 Pounds (US)
List Prices	$29.95 USD, £21.95 GBP
ONIX	v2.1 Reference

Format	Electronic book text
Published	June 5, 2018
ISBN-13	9780819578082
Print Edition	9780819578068
Language	English
Pages	264
Height	9.00 Inches (US)
Width	6.00 Inches (US)
List Prices	$23.99 USD, £17.95 GBP
ONIX	v2.1 Reference