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300 a| x, 280 pages :b| illustrations, maps, music ;c| 24 cm.;

490 1 a| New material histories of music;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

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520 a| "From the sounds of West Central African harps to the sounds of the European J. S. Bach revival, Creatures of the Air is a nineteenth-century music history told as a history of the art's elemental media system, air. Air is here understood as a human domain and music as an art of that domain, as such embedded in histories of environmental and colonial struggle around a thickened consciousness of the air and of breathing itself. The narrative moves across malarial equatorial climates and polluted industrial ones; the loss and recovery of the human voice in hazardous environmental conditions; scenes of suffocation and breathing mirrored in the creation and performance of Mendelssohn's enormous Elijah oratorio. No longer just an innocent luxury, by its claim to invisibility music is shown to be implicated in the struggle for control over air as a most precious natural resource. What emerges is a complex political ecology where differentiated musical systems combined, struggled against, and co-constituted one another in the course of the global nineteenth century and beyond"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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Creatures of the air music, Atlantic spirits, breath, 1817-1913 / J.Q. Davies.

Author/creator	Davies, J. Q., 1973-
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2023.
Description	x, 280 pages : illustrations, maps, music ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost
Subjects	Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847. Elias. Schweitzer, Albert, 1875-1965--Travel. --Gabon. Music--Environmental aspects. --History. --19th century. Ecomusicology. Air. Respiration. Ethnomusicology--Gabon. --History. --19th century. Singing--History. --19th century. Music and technology--History. --19th century. Black people--Brazil. --Belém. --Music. --19th century. --History and criticism. Brazil--Belém. --History. --19th century. Brazil--History. --Empire, 1822-1889.

Series	New material histories of music New material histories of music. UNAUTHORIZED
Contents	White "genius" : Ngango, Gabon Estuary, 1817 -- A Falcon under glass : Paris, France, 1838 -- Moral atmospherics in Elijah : Black Country, Britain, 1846-1860 -- Black "Possession" : Santa Maria de Belém do Grão-Pará, Brazil, 1871 -- A spectral image of breath : New York, United States, 1901 -- Albert Schweitzer's Equatorial Piano : Lambaréné, Gabon, 1913.
Abstract	"From the sounds of West Central African harps to the sounds of the European J. S. Bach revival, Creatures of the Air is a nineteenth-century music history told as a history of the art's elemental media system, air. Air is here understood as a human domain and music as an art of that domain, as such embedded in histories of environmental and colonial struggle around a thickened consciousness of the air and of breathing itself. The narrative moves across malarial equatorial climates and polluted industrial ones; the loss and recovery of the human voice in hazardous environmental conditions; scenes of suffocation and breathing mirrored in the creation and performance of Mendelssohn's enormous Elijah oratorio. No longer just an innocent luxury, by its claim to invisibility music is shown to be implicated in the struggle for control over air as a most precious natural resource. What emerges is a complex political ecology where differentiated musical systems combined, struggled against, and co-constituted one another in the course of the global nineteenth century and beyond"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2022055968
ISBN	9780226826134 (cloth)
ISBN	(ebook)

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