Listen
Subtitle: a history of our ears
By: Peter Szendy ; preceded by Ascoltando by Jean-Luc Nancy ; translated by Charlotte Mandell.
Contributors: Nancy, Jean-Luc.
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780823227990; 9780823228003
Subjects: Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.; Music -- History and criticism.; Musical criticism.
Work titles: Écoute.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-160).
Table of contents: value: Prelude and address. I'm listening; value: Author's rights, listener's rights (journal of our ancestors); value: Writing our listenings: arrangement, translation, criticism; value: Our instruments for listening before the law (second journal entry); value: Listening (to listening): the making of the modern ear; value: Plastic listening.