Acoustics of Empire

Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

Introduction: Imperial Sounds, c. 1797
Peter McMurray and Priyasha Mukhopadhyay

PART I. INFRASTRUCTURE AND CITIES
1. Grappling All Day: Towards Another History of Telegraphy
Alejandra Bronfman

2. Encounter and Memory in Ottoman Soundscapes: An Audiovisual Album of Street Vendors' Cries
Nazan Maksudyan

3. Listening to Infrastructure: Traffic Noise and Classism in Modern Egypt
Ziad Fahmy


PART II. AURAL EPISTEMOLOGIES 4. Colonial Listening and the Epistemology of Deception: The Stethoscope in Africa
Gavin Steingo

5. Epistemological Jugalbandi: Sound, Science, and the Supernatural in Colonial North India
Richard David Williams

6. Ramendrasundar Tribedi and a Sonic History of Race in Colonial Bengal
Projit Bihari Mukharji


PART III. MUSICAL ENCOUNTERS
7. Cosmopoiesis: Stories Sung of the Equatorial Gulf of Guinea, 1817
James Q. Davies

8. Listening to Korea: Audible Prayers, Boat Songs, and the Aural Possibilities of the U.S. Missionary Archive
Hyun Kyong Hannah Chang

9. Listening through the Operatic Voice in 1820s Rio de Janeiro
Benjamin Walton

10. Ethnography and Exoticism in Nineteenth-Century France
Sindhumathi Revuluri


PART IV. SILENCE AND ITS OTHERS
11. The Anacoustic: Imperial Aurality, Aesthetic Capture, and the Spanish-American War
Jairo Moreno

12. pee ae wee, an Outrageous Clatter, and Other Sounds of Acclimatization
Alexandra Hui

13. Gandhi's Silence
Faisal Devji


Afterword: Sound in the Imperial Archive
Elleke Boehmer

Index

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• Colonialismo, imperialismo e
• Teoria da música e musicologia
• Estudos de meios de comunicação
• Estudos literários: literatura pós-colonial
• História moderna para o século 20: c1700 a c 1900