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September 2013

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The Sawyer Seminars at Harvard begin September 16th

Hearing Modernity. Exploring the World of SOUND STUDIES

Sound, fleeting and immaterial, has long proved resistant to academic inquiry. Faced with the impenetrable difficulty of pinning down sounds themselves, scholars have largely focused on written texts (instead of spoken words), while musicians have largely focused on notes (instead of sounds). In recent years, however, a number of very promising approaches from a variety of fields, which often bridge the arts and the sciences, have sprung up and have begun to capture this phenomenon in its wider context. 

The 2013/14 John E. Sawyer seminar “Hearing Modernity” explores the world of sound studies. As the humanities turn away from the predominance of the visual domain and start exploring other sensory modalities, as the arts turn away from their traditional preoccupation with the work concept and toward a heightened appreciation of ecologies and soundscapes, and as the self-imposed limitations of C. P. Snow’s “Two Cultures” become ever more apparent, sound studies emerges as a new field that responds to multiple challenges at once. 



 
 

October 2013

 

October 18-20, 2013
Music in Time: Phenomenology, Perception, Performance.
A conference in honor of Christopher Hasty

Speakers: Kofi Agawu, Jeanne Bamberger, Stephen Blum, Matthew W. Butterfield, Scott Burnham, Martin Brody, Nicholas Cook, Brian Hulse, Susan McClary, Eugene Montague, Robert Morris, Eugene Narmour, Janet Schmalfeldt, Joseph Straus, Lawrence Zbikowski

 



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