Priyasha Mukhopadhyay’s New Book Acoustics of Empire Receives Honorable Mention from the American Musicological Society

Peter McMurray and Priyasha Mukhopadhyay

Acoustics of Empire: Sound, Media, and Power in the Long Nineteenth Century, edited by Peter McMurray and Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, (Oxford University Press, 2024)

“…The Acoustics of Empire: Sound, Media, and Power in the Long Nineteenth Century, edited by Peter McMurray and Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, demonstrates capacious yet focused editorial command, drawing together a wide range of voices to situate sound at the center of imperial modernity. Its global reach and historical specificity combine to show how acoustics and empire co-constituted one another, while its critical framing and methods push sound studies in daring new directions. By decentering Euro-American paradigms and foregrounding overlooked archives and epistemologies, the collection expands the horizons of our field.”