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Creatures of the Air: Music, Atlantic Spirits, Breath, 1817 1913 (New Material Histories of Music)
An account of nineteenth-century music in Atlantic worlds told through the history of the arts elemental medium, the air. Often experienced as universal and incorporeal, music seems an innocent art form. The air, the very medium by which music constitutes itself, shares with music a claim to invisibility. In Creatures of the Air, J. Q. Davies interrogates these claims, tracing the history of musics elemental media system in nineteenth-century Atlantic worlds. He posits that air is a poetic domain, and music is an art of that domain. From West Central African Read more