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James Q. Davies and Ellen Lockhart, eds, Sound Knowledge: Music and Science in London, 1789–1851 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017). vi + 256 pp. £41.50

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James Q. Davies and Ellen Lockhart, eds, Sound Knowledge: Music and Science in London, 1789–1851 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017). vi + 256 pp. £41.50

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2018

Shannon Draucker
Shannon Draucker*
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Boston Universitysdraucke@bu.edu
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Nineteenth-Century Music Review , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , December 2019 , pp. 446 - 448
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References

1 Picker, Jonathan, Victorian Soundscapes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003)CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Sterne, Jonathan, The Audible Past (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003)CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Steege, Benjamin, Helmholtz and the Modern Listener (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Sterne, Picker, and Steege are among those who have traced the emergence of auditory science in the otherwise ocularcentric nineteenth century. In addition, for the past four decades, musicologists such as Nicholas Temperley, Christina Bashford, Ruth Solie, Leanne Langley and Phyllis Weliver have been resisting the notion that Victorian England was Das Land ohne Musik and insisting on the vibrant musical life that existed in nineteenth-century Britain.

3 For more discussions of Victorian street noise, see Picker, Victorian Soundscapes, ch. 2.