A review by greatgodbird
Listen: A History of Our Ears by Peter Szendy

3.0

Szendy gives good account of history and how musics are heard in a practical sense, but the biggest thing I found missing is the meaning behind it all - why do we listen in the ways we do, and when does our listening become a doing, a signature in its own right? Some reference to Adorno, but with understanding of the product/object of music that Adorno understood. Some reference to DeNora with music as an everyday doing, but nothing on Small's musicking, which may have been able to make up for Adorno's static view of music. Altogether, wanted sociology, got musicology with a side of music trivia.