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David Novak is Associate Professor of Music at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation, also published by Duke University Press.
Matt Sakakeeny is Associate Professor of Music at Tulane University, and the author of Roll With It: Brass Bands in the Streets of New Orleans, also published by Duke University Press.
David Novak is Associate Professor of Music at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation, also published by Duke University Press.
Matt Sakakeeny is Associate Professor of Music at Tulane University, and the author of Roll With It: Brass Bands in the Streets of New Orleans, also published by Duke University Press.
The history of acoustics, a subfield of physics, can be written as a narrative in which this field of knowledge came to be defined less by the study of sound itself than by the nonaural physical conditions that enable it. Having emerged in the early modern era simply as the science of the heard, acoustics was often viewed more specifically as a study of vibration. Since vibration is not only a feature of sound production but also a phenomenon independent of aural perception, acoustics increasingly found itself in communication with scientific endeavors, including precision measurement and processes of standardization, that...
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