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BOOK REVIEW ESSAY

To Hear with Early Ears: Hearkening to Premodern Sound Studies

Both from the Ears and Mind: Thinking About Music in Early Modern England. By Linda Phyllis Austern. The University of Chicago Press. 2020. The Sound of Writing. Edited by Christopher Cannon and Steven Justice. Johns Hopkins University Press. 2023. The Powers of Sound and Song in Early Modern Paris. By Nicholas Hammond. Penn State University Press. 2019. Singing the News of Death: Execution Ballads in Europe 1500–1900. By Una McIlvenna. Oxford University Press. 2022. Seachanges: Music in the Mediterranean and Atlantic Worlds, 1550–1800. Edited by Kate van Orden. I Tatti – The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. 2022.

 

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1. For McIlvenna, see www.executionballads.com; and, for Hammond, www.parisiansoundscapes.org.

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Paul Michael Johnson

Paul Michael Johnson is Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at DePauw University and a 2023–24 visiting fellow at Harvard’s Houghton Library. He is the author of Affective Geographies: Cervantes, Emotion, and the Literary Mediterranean (University of Toronto Press, 2020). His research — animated by interests in the history of emotion, visual and sound studies, the body, and translation — has appeared in such venues as MLN, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, and PMLA.

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