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Medieval, Early Modern, Theory
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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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  • Johnson, Paul Michael. 2024. “Captive Listeners: Antonio de Sosa’s Topographia as Acoustic Ethnography of Early Modern Algiers.” In Soundscapes of the Early Modern Iberian Empires, edited by Víctor Sierra Matute. New York: Routledge.
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  • Steinberg, Michael P. 2014. “Music and Melancholy.” Critical Inquiry 40 (2): 288–310.

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