Session Abstract

How do scholars make historical arguments using sound?  What are the challenges that scholars face in thinking about the history of sonic practices and environments, cultural artifacts that take audio form, audio technologies, audible media, and music theory and other discourses about sound?  What can historians learn from musicologists as they work to incorporate the study of sound into historical analysis? This roundtable brings historians, musicologists, and art historians together to reflect on the challenges and rewards of using audible sources to understand the past.  The anticipated audience will consist of scholars interested in these issues of interdisciplinary methodology.