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SUMMARY:Sonorous Sublimes: Music and Sound 1670–1850 - Speaker to be con
 firmed
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DESCRIPTION:This interdisciplinary conference is dedicated to the sublime 
 in music and sound\, c.1670–1850. It brings together scholars from acros
 s the humanities to re-sound the sublime\, from its rise to prominence in 
 the age of Boileau and Lully\, to its saturation of European culture in th
 e mid-nineteenth century. The sublime has long been recognised as a crucia
 l cultural category in this period\, involved not only in the emergence of
  aesthetics and radically changing artistic practices\, but in politics\, 
 science\, theology\, gender history\, histories of the subject\, and so on
 . Until very recently\, attention to sonorous sublimes beyond music has ci
 rcled round a narrow range of terrifying noises – screams\, canons\, rus
 hing waters – identified in Burke’s famous theory of the sublime. Musi
 c itself has appeared as a latecomer to the feast of the sublime\, feeding
  off an established discourse concerned with the verbal and visual. Respon
 ding to new developments in musicology and sound studies\, this conference
  aims to explore both the rich variety of sounds heard as sublime by past 
 listeners\, and the complex roles played by music in forming and transform
 ing the discourse\, practice\, and politics of the sublime.
LOCATION:CRASSH\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, CB3 
 9DP
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