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One way to gauge the ambition of Rachel Mundy's Animal Musicalitiesin ethical and scholarly termsis to begin with the conclusion. Here, in a little over a dozen pages, Mundy sketches the contours of what she terms 'the animanities'. If the verbal logic (animals + humanities) seems simple enough, it's apparent by this stage in Mundy's study that her neologism is hinting at something more specific, more historical: she calls for 'an intervention in the postwar, postmodern, posthuman condition of present-day humanism' and adds that the 'problems of musical knowledge described in this book are not answered by the disciplinary boundaries of the humanities' (169). Mundy arrives at this claim via a combination of rigorous historical scholarship and a relentless focus on the intellectual and political functions of difference. The preceding chapters, which we'll come to presently, tell a series of rich, provocative stories that show how the collection, classification, and analysis of animals have conditioned the techniques and epistemologies of musical study from the late nineteenth century to the present day. In her conclusion, Mundy extrapolates from these stories to propose seven issues

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Author

Jonathan Hicks

Publisher

Cambridge University Press; Cambridge University Press (CUP) (ISSN 1478-5722)

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)