{"product_id":"sound-knowledge-j-q-davies-9780226402079","title":"Sound Knowledge: Music and Science in London, 1789-1851","description":"What does it mean to hear scientifically? What does it mean to see musically? This volume uncovers a new side to the long nineteenth century in London, a hidden history in which virtuosic musical entertainment and scientific discovery intersected in remarkable ways. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSound Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e examines how scientific truth was accrued by means of visual and aural experience, and, in turn, how musical knowledge was located in relation to empirical scientific practice. James Q. Davies and Ellen Lockhart gather work by leading scholars to explore a crucial sixty-year period, beginning with Charles Burney's ambitious \u003ci\u003eGeneral History of Music\u003c\/i\u003e, a four-volume study of music around the globe, and extending to the Great Exhibition of 1851, where musical instruments were assembled alongside the technologies of science and industry in the immense glass-encased collections of the Crystal Palace. Importantly, as the contributions show, both the power of science and the power of music relied on performance, spectacle, and experiment. Ultimately, this volume sets the stage for a new picture of modern disciplinarity, shining light on an era before the division of aural and visual knowledge. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J. Q. Davies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022640207X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226402079\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/27\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.10d","brand":"J. Q. Davies","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086409576703,"sku":"9780226402079","price":59.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c0430b07-1665-48c7-af47-a68a7dd69580.jpg?v=1769094508","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sound-knowledge-j-q-davies-9780226402079","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}