Atmospheric Knowledge - Environmentality, Latency, and Sonic Multimodality

"This episodic, experimental, and intellectually capacious book is an example of what contemporary anthropology and musicology do best. It has the potential to serve as a catalyst to decenter affect as the preeminent analytic of arts and humanities scholarship."--Timothy Cooper, author of Moral Atmospheres: Islam and Media in a Pakistani Marketplace

"This book has potential for becoming a seminal work, providing intellectual and analytical tools for future generations of scholars across a broad range of academic terrains. The vagueness and, by definition, ineffability of atmospheres make them a heuristic resource that is abstractable and applicable across cultures and historical contingencies."--Carola Lorea, author of Folklore, Religion and the Songs of a Bengali Madman: A Journey between Performance and the Politics of Cultural Representation

"Atmospheres are everywhere--and yet they have been surprisingly underresearched until now. This wonderfully provocative book provides a foundational text for tomorrow's theorists in fields like anthropology, environmental studies, music and sound studies, and critical geography."--Jim Sykes, author of The Musical Gift: Sonic Generosity in Post-War Sri Lanka

About the author

Birgit Abels is Professor of Cultural Musicology at the University of Göttingen and author of Music Worlding in Palau and Sounds of Articulating Identity.

Patrick Eisenlohr is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Göttingen and author of Sounding Islam and Little India.

Product details

• Authors: Birgit Eisenlohr Abels, Abels Birgit, Eisenlohr Patrick
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2025
• EAN: 9780520417328
• ISBN: 978-0-520-41732-8
• No. of pages: 186
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, MUSIC / Ethnomusicology, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Theory of music & musicology, Social and cultural anthropology, Theory of music and musicology