With Emily MacGregor and Arman Schwartz, Emily Dolan co-edited Sonic Circulations: Music, Modernism, and the Politics of Knowledge (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 2025). The ten essays and two epilogues explore the role of music, sound, and voice played in modern knowledge production in the first half of the the twentieth century. Exploring key moments in the development of disciplines including linguistics, sociology, and eugenics, as well as musicology itself, Sonic Circulations explores the many ways that sound has functioned as evidence and information, as both an object and an agent of scientific mastery.
Department of Music
Date
September 3, 2025
Collection of Essays Co-Edited by Professor Emily Dolan Published by Penn Press
Brown University Professor of Music Emily Dolan co-edited Sonic Circulations: Music, Modernism, and the Politics of Knowledge (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 2025)