Full Description
What does sound, whether preserved or lost, tell us about nineteenth-century wartime? Hearing the Crimean War: Wartime Sound and the Unmaking of Sense pursues this question through the many territories affected by the Crimean War, including Britain, France, Turkey, Russia, Italy, Poland, Latvia, Dagestan, Chechnya, and Crimea. Examining the experience of listeners and the politics of archiving sound, it reveals the close interplay between nineteenth-century geographies of empire and the media through which wartime sounds became audible--or failed to do so. The volume explores the dynamics of sound both in violent encounters on the battlefield and in the experience of listeners far-removed from theaters of war, each essay interrogating the Crimean War's sonic archive in order to address a broad set of issues in musicology, ethnomusicology, literary studies, the history of the senses and sound studies.
Contents
List of Contributors
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Sound Unmade
Gavin Williams
Sound, Technology, Sense
1. Sympathy and Synaesthesia: Tolstoy's Place in the Intellectual History of Cosmopolitan Spectatorship
Dina Gusejnova
2. The Revolution Will Not Be Telegraphed: Shari'a Law as Mediascape
Peter McMurray
3. Gunfire and London's Media Reality: Listening to Distance between Piano, Newspaper and Theater
Gavin Williams
4. Overhearing Indigenous Silence: Crimean Tatars during the Crimean War
Maria Sonevytsky
Voice at the Border
5. Orienting the Martial: Polish Legion Songs on the Map
Andrea Bohlman
6. Who Sings the Song of the Russian Soldier? Listening for the Sounds and Silence of War in Baltic Russia
Kevin C. Karnes
7. A voice that carries
Delia Casadei
Wartime as Heard
8. Operatic Battlefields, Theater of War
Flora Willson
9. Earwitness: Sound and Sense-Making in Tolstoy's Sevastopol Stories
Alyson Tapp
10. InConsequence: 1853-6
Hillel Schwarz
Bibliography
Index
