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Speaking, Stammering, Singing, Shouting
A Social History of the Modern Voice
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9781512827736
Pub Date: September 2025
Format: Hardcover
280 Pages
Speaking, Stammering, Singing, Shouting traces the history of what was considered a good, normal, or healthy voice in the nineteenth century. From parrots and preachers to stammerers and singers, the book delves not only into changing medical norms and musical ideals but also into the sometimes painful and awkward daily work of having a voice.
Sonic Circulations
Music, Modernism, and the Politics of Knowledge
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512828030
Pub Date: September 2025
Format: Hardcover
336 Pages
Tracing the pathways through which sound traveled across a variety of conceptual and physical domains in the first half of the twentieth century, Sonic Circulations not only proposes a new account of the role of music, sound, and voice in modern knowledge production but also poses urgent questions about technology and empire.
The Broadside Ballad in Early Modern England
Moving Media, Tactical Publics
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512827910
Pub Date: March 2025
Format: Paperback
480 Pages
Featuring more than 80 illustrations and easy access to related music files, this magisterial work argues that a ballad cannot be read as a fixed artifact, independent of its illustrations, tune, and movement across time and space.
Proust's Songbook
Songs and Their Uses
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9781512825961
Pub Date: June 2024
Format: Hardcover
344 Pages
Jennifer Rushworth argues for a new approach to Proust’s novel, reading it as a “songbook” because of its intermittent but intense engagement with song. She uncovers multiple Proustian uses of song, and shows how these are linked by desire, memory, repetition, and different kinds of resistance.
Cosmos, Liturgy, and the Arts in the Twelfth Century
Hildegard's Illuminated "Scivias"
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512823073
Pub Date: December 2022
Format: Hardcover
392 Pages
In Cosmos, Liturgy, and the Arts in the Twelfth Century, Margot E. Fassler takes readers into the rich, complex world of Hildegard of Bingen’s Scivias (meaning “Know the ways”) to explore how medieval thinkers understood and imagined the universe.
Sonic Bodies
Text, Music, and Silence in Late Medieval England
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9780812253702
Pub Date: March 2022
Format: Hardcover
280 Pages
Tekla Bude starts from a simple premise—that music requires a body to perform it—to rethink the relationship between music, matter, and the body in the late medieval period. Sonic Bodies argues that writers thought of "music" and "the body" as mutually dependent and historically determined processes that called each other into being.

Speaking, Stammering, Singing, Shouting
A Social History of the Modern Voice
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9781512827736
Pub Date: September 2025
Format: Hardcover
280 Pages
Speaking, Stammering, Singing, Shouting traces the history of what was considered a good, normal, or healthy voice in the nineteenth century. From parrots and preachers to stammerers and singers, the book delves not only into changing medical norms and musical ideals but also into the sometimes painful and awkward daily work of having a voice.
Sonic Circulations
Music, Modernism, and the Politics of Knowledge
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512828030
Pub Date: September 2025
Format: Hardcover
336 Pages
Tracing the pathways through which sound traveled across a variety of conceptual and physical domains in the first half of the twentieth century, Sonic Circulations not only proposes a new account of the role of music, sound, and voice in modern knowledge production but also poses urgent questions about technology and empire.
The Broadside Ballad in Early Modern England
Moving Media, Tactical Publics
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512827910
Pub Date: March 2025
Format: Paperback
480 Pages
Featuring more than 80 illustrations and easy access to related music files, this magisterial work argues that a ballad cannot be read as a fixed artifact, independent of its illustrations, tune, and movement across time and space.
Proust's Songbook
Songs and Their Uses
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9781512825961
Pub Date: June 2024
Format: Hardcover
344 Pages
Jennifer Rushworth argues for a new approach to Proust’s novel, reading it as a “songbook” because of its intermittent but intense engagement with song. She uncovers multiple Proustian uses of song, and shows how these are linked by desire, memory, repetition, and different kinds of resistance.
Cosmos, Liturgy, and the Arts in the Twelfth Century
Hildegard's Illuminated "Scivias"
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512823073
Pub Date: December 2022
Format: Hardcover
392 Pages
In Cosmos, Liturgy, and the Arts in the Twelfth Century, Margot E. Fassler takes readers into the rich, complex world of Hildegard of Bingen’s Scivias (meaning “Know the ways”) to explore how medieval thinkers understood and imagined the universe.
Sonic Bodies
Text, Music, and Silence in Late Medieval England
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9780812253702
Pub Date: March 2022
Format: Hardcover
280 Pages
Tekla Bude starts from a simple premise—that music requires a body to perform it—to rethink the relationship between music, matter, and the body in the late medieval period. Sonic Bodies argues that writers thought of "music" and "the body" as mutually dependent and historically determined processes that called each other into being.