The Ancient Phonograph
The Ancient Phonograph

Author: Shane Butler

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2016-04-22

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1935408925

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A search for traces of the voice before the phonograph, reconstructing a series of ancient soundscapes from Aristotle to Augustine. Long before the invention of musical notation, and long before that of the phonograph, the written word was unrivaled as a medium of the human voice. In The Ancient Phonograph, Shane Butler searches for traces of voices before Edison, reconstructing a series of ancient soundscapes from Aristotle to Augustine. Here the real voices of tragic actors, ambitious orators, and singing emperors blend with the imagined voices of lovesick nymphs, tormented heroes, and angry gods. The resonant world we encounter in ancient sources is at first unfamiliar, populated by texts that speak and sing, often with no clear difference between the two. But Butler discovers a commonality that invites a deeper understanding of why voices mattered then and why they have mattered since. With later examples that range from Mozart to Jimi Hendrix, Butler offers an ambitious attempt to rethink the voice—as an anatomical presence, a conceptual category, and a source of pleasure and wonder. He carefully and critically assesses the strengths and limits of recent theoretical approaches to the voice by Adriana Cavarero and Mladen Dolar and makes a rich and provocative range of ancient material available for the first time. The Ancient Phonograph will appeal not only to classicists and to voice theorists but to anyone with an interest in the verbal arts—literature, oratory, song—and the nature of aesthetic experience.

The Phonograph and how to Use it
The Phonograph and how to Use it

Author: National Phonograph Company

Publisher:

Published: 1900

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13:

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"Much has been written concerning the Phonograph since Thomas A. Edison startled the world with the first tin foil machine, a round generation ago. The history of its development, step by step would fill volumes. The earlier types have become obsolete in the march of progress. It is the purpose of this book to illustrate and describe, not only the first distinctly practical Phonograph of Commerce (the type M Electric Phonograph) but all the subsequent types and styles ; together with the various attachments which are now in everyday use. What with the diagrams and the plain instructions, it will be demonstrated that the Phonograph is as easy to take care of and as simple to manage as any mechanical movement that is thoroughly understood by its operator."--Foreword by Editor.

Sound and the Ancient Senses
Sound and the Ancient Senses

Author: Shane Butler

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-03

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1317300424

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Sound leaves no ruins and no residues, even though it is experienced constantly. It is ubiquitous but fleeting. Even silence has sound, even absence resonates. Sound and the Ancient Senses aims to hear the lost sounds of antiquity, from the sounds of the human body to those of the gods, from the bathhouse to the Forum, from the chirp of a cicada to the music of the spheres. Sound plays so great a role in shaping our environments as to make it a crucial sounding board for thinking about space and ecology, emotions and experience, mortality and the divine, orality and textuality, and the self and its connection to others. From antiquity to the present day, poets and philosophers have strained to hear the ways that sounds structure our world and identities. This volume looks at theories and practices of hearing and producing sounds in ritual contexts, medicine, mourning, music, poetry, drama, erotics, philosophy, rhetoric, linguistics, vocality, and on the page, and shows how ancient ideas of sound still shape how and what we hear today. As the first comprehensive introduction to the soundscapes of antiquity, this volume makes a significant contribution to the burgeoning fields of sound and voice studies and is the final volume of the series, The Senses in Antiquity.

The Phonograph and How to Use It: Being a Short History of Its Invention and Development, Containing Also Directions, Helpful Hints and Plain Talks As
The Phonograph and How to Use It: Being a Short History of Its Invention and Development, Containing Also Directions, Helpful Hints and Plain Talks As

Author: National Phonograph Company

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781016402170

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Synaesthesia and the Ancient Senses
Synaesthesia and the Ancient Senses

Author: Shane Butler

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-09-03

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1317547144

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Like us, the ancient Greeks and Romans came to know and understand the world through their senses. Yet sensory experience has rarely been considered in the study of antiquity and, when the senses are examined, sight is regularly privileged. 'Synaesthesia and the Ancient Senses' presents a radical reappraisal of antiquity's textures, flavours, and aromas, sounds and sights. It offers both a fresh look at society in the ancient world and an opportunity to deepen the reading of classical literature. The book will appeal to readers in classical society and literature, philosophy and cultural history. All Greek and Latin is translated and technical matters are explained for the non-specialist. The introduction sets the ancient senses within the history of aesthetics and the subsequent essays explores the senses throughout the classical period and on to the modern reception of classical literature.

Voice and Voices in Antiquity
Voice and Voices in Antiquity

Author: Niall Slater

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-10-18

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 9004329730

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Voice and Voices in Antiquity draws together 18 studies of the changing concept of voice and voices in the oral traditions and subsequent literate genres of the ancient world. Ranging from the poet's voice to those of characters as well as historically embodied communities, and from the interface between the Greek and Near Eastern worlds to the western reaches of the Roman Empire, the scholars assembled here offer a methodologically rich and diverse series of approaches to locating the power of voice as both poetic construct and communal memory. The results not only enrich our understanding of the strategies of epic, lyric, and dramatic voices but also illuminate the rhetorical claims given voice by historians, orators, philosophers, and novelists in the ancient world.