Sonic Circulations: Music, Modernism, and the Politics of Knowledge

The role music, sound, and voice played in modern knowledge production in the early twentieth century

Derived from the Latin words circum (round) and ire (to go), a circuit can refer to any bounded area. For contemporary readers, it might evoke the course of an electric current, as well as the flow of global capital. Yet sound—an inherently temporal phenomenon—can only circulate in mediated forms. Tracing the pathways through and by which sound traveled in the early twentieth century, Sonic ...