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Author:   Fanny Gribenski (Assistant Professor of Music, Assistant Professor of Music, New York University) ,  David Pantalony (Curator, Science and Medicine, Curator, Science and Medicine, Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation) ,  Viktoria Tkaczyk (Professor of Media and Knowledge Technologies, Professor of Media and Knowledge Technologies, Department of Media Studies and Musicology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.621kg
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9780197814574

ISBN 10:   0197814573
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   04 December 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part I. Rethinking Sonic Perfection 1: Elodie A. Roy: Phonographic Imperfect: A Network Archaeology of Shellac 2: Rebecca Wolf: High Energy for a Great Modernity: Musical Instruments Made with Aluminum Part II. Writing Against the Chain 3: Edward J. Gillin: Keyed In: Ivory, Slavery, and the Colonial Networks of the Piano, 1850-1931 4: Michael Silvers: Pernambuco: Listening for ""the Very Substance of America"" Part III. Paying Attention to Noisy Matter 5: Matthew Hockenberry: Paper: A Sonic Archaeology of Some Vegetable Fibers Part IV. Conducting Material-Oriented Provenance Research 6: Fanny Gribenski and David Pantalony: Forging Acoustic Precision 7: Viktoria Tkaczyk: Sounds in Wax: Comparative Musicology, Chemistry, and the World as a Resource 8: Panagiotis Poulopoulos: The Troubling Sound of Mahogany: Sugar, Slaves, and Square Pianos Part V. Tuning In to Sound Cultures Beyond Extractivism 9: James Q. Davies: Kautschukmelodie: Blood Rubber, Epistemic Murk, Song Properties 10: Thamarai Selvan Kannan: Sweet and Sound: Crafting Jackfruit Kattai in South India

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Fanny Gribenski is Assistant Professor of Music at New York University. She is the author of L'Église comme lieu de concert (2019) and Tuning the World (2023). Her current research examines the relationships between musical instruments, ecology, and empire. Gribenski has been a fellow of the Thiers Foundation, the Fulbright Commission, and the Huntington Library, and has worked as a research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, and the French National Scientific Research Center (CNRS) and IRCAM, Paris. David Pantalony is Curator of Science and Medicine at Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation, and has been a research fellow at the Smithsonian Institution, the Dibner Institute at MIT, and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He was awarded the Bunge Prize for his book on the acoustical instrument maker Rudolph Koenig. Pantalony's current research focusses on the history of the precision instrument industry in Canada. He is adjunct professor in the University of Ottawa's History Department, where he has taught collection-based seminars on provenance. Viktoria Tkaczyk is Professor of Media and Knowledge Technologies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where she also leads the Research Center ""Applied Humanities: Genealogy and Politics."" Her academic career includes positions and fellowships at Freie Universität Berlin, the University of Amsterdam, the Laboratoire SPHERE in Paris, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, and Princeton University. She has published widely on the history of early modern and modern aviation, architecture, acoustics, neuroscience, experimental aesthetics, and sound media. Her current research explores the relationship between concepts of humanity and of technology.

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