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04231aam a2200673 i 4500 001 52A0346C6E4511EEB99592A929ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231019010051 008 221123t20232023ilua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022055968 020 $a 0226826139 020 $a 9780226826134 035 $a (OCoLC)1356576760 040 $a ICU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d BDX $d YDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCQ $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a s-bl--- $a s-bl--- 050 00 $a ML3799.3 $b .D38 2023 082 00 $a 780/.0577 $2 23/eng/20221228 100 1 $a Davies, J. Q., $d 1973- $e author. 245 10 $a Creatures of the air : $b music, Atlantic spirits, breath, 1817-1913 / $c J. Q. Davies. 264 1 $a Chicago, IL : $b The University of Chicago Press, $c 2023. 300 $a x, 280 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a New material histories of music 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a White "genius" : Ngango, Gabon Estuary, 1817 -- A Falcon under glass : Paris, France, 1838 -- Moral atmospherics in Elijah : Black Country, Britain, 1846-1860 -- Black musics control : Santa Maria de Belem do Grao-Para, Brazil, 1871 -- A spectral image of breath : New York, United States, 1901 -- Albert Schweitzer's Equatorial Piano : Lambarene, Gabon, 1913. 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. 650 0 $a Music $x History $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Ecomusicology. 650 0 $a Air. 650 0 $a Respiration. 650 0 $a Ethnomusicology $z Gabon $x History $y 19th century. 600 10 $a Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, $d 1809-1847. $t Elias. 600 10 $a Schweitzer, Albert, $d 1875-1965 $x Travel $z Gabon. 650 0 $a Singing $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Music and technology $x History $y 19th century. 651 0 $a Black people $z Belem $z Belem $x History and criticism. $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 651 0 $a Brazil $z Belem $x History $y 19th century. 651 0 $a Brazil $x History $y Empire, 1822-1889. 600 17 $a Schweitzer, Albert, $d 1875-1965. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00040772 630 07 $a Elias (Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01359108 650 7 $a Air. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00802066 650 7 $a Ecomusicology. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01923039 650 7 $a Ethnomusicology. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00916186 650 7 $a Music. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01030269 650 7 $a Music and technology. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01030490 650 7 $a Music $x Environmental aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01030319 650 7 $a Respiration. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01095694 650 7 $a Singing. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01119311 650 7 $a Travel. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01155558 651 7 $a Brazil. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01206830 651 7 $a Brazil $z Belem. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01206831 651 7 $a Gabon. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01205420 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 830 0 $a New material histories of music 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117020846.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=52A0346C6E4511EEB99592A929ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search