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As Spain encountered economic and political crises in the seventeenth century, the imagery of musical performance was invoked by the state to represent the powe

This book explores the representation of music in early modern Spanish literature and reveals how music was understood within the framework of the Harmony of th

Hearing Voices takes a fresh look at sound in the poetry and prose of colonial Latin American poet and nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648/51–95). A voraciou

What role did sacred music play in mediating Louis XIII's grip on power in the early seventeenth century? How can a study of music as 'sounding liturgy' contrib

Thinkers like W. E. B. Du Bois and Paul Gilroy have long championed sound as an affective register of Black subjectivity, particularly in the African Atlantic.