{"product_id":"creatures-of-the-air-music-atlantic-spirits-breath-1817-1913-hardcover","title":"Creatures of the Air: Music, Atlantic Spirits, Breath, 1817-1913 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJ. Q. Davies\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn account of nineteenth-century music in Atlantic worlds told through the history of the art's elemental medium, the air.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Often experienced as universal and incorporeal, music seems an innocent art form. The air, the very medium by which music constitutes itself, shares with music a claim to invisibility. In \u003ci\u003eCreatures of the Air\u003c\/i\u003e, J. Q. Davies interrogates these claims, tracing the history of music's elemental media system in nineteenth-century Atlantic worlds. He posits that air is a poetic domain, and music is an art of that domain. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From West Central African \u003ci\u003engombi \u003c\/i\u003eharps to the European J. S. Bach revival, music expressed elemental truths in the nineteenth century. \u003ci\u003eCreatures of the Air\u003c\/i\u003e tells these truths through stories about suffocation and breathing, architecture and environmental design, climate strife, and racial turmoil. Contributing to elemental media studies, the energy humanities, and colonial histories, Davies shows how music, no longer just an innocent luxury, is implicated in the struggle for control over air as a precious natural resource. What emerges is a complex political ecology of the global nineteenth century and beyond.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ. Q. Davies\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley. With Nicholas Mathew, he is the coeditor of the New Material Histories of Music series at the University of Chicago Press. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eRomantic Anatomies of Performance\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor, with Ellen Lockhart, of \u003ci\u003eSound Knowledge: Music and Science in London, 1789-1851.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.94 x 9.06 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 11, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42156455886983,"sku":"9780226826134","price":89.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/e44ffbd8f7be6292b3ce4ba7fcc327e4.webp?v=1733243856","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/creatures-of-the-air-music-atlantic-spirits-breath-1817-1913-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}