The Sound of Evolution
2003; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 10; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/mod.2003.0030
ISSN1080-6601
Autores Tópico(s)Musicology and Musical Analysis
ResumoThis essay tracks the emergence of comparative musicology in Germany circa 1900, concentrating on the use of the phonograph by Carl Stumpf and Erich Moritz von Hornbostel, founders of the Berlin Phonogram Archive. The phonograph served as a scientific instrument for charting the evolution of music, based on recordings of "exotic melodies" performed at ethnographic exhibitions and other urban venues. Situating the discipline in the context of historical debates about evolution, colonialism, modernity, and mass culture, this essay argues that comparative musicology took shape and assumed resonance as a mode of phonographic discourse that aimed to make evolution audible.
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