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Special Issue
Music and Sound at the Edges of History
edited by Martha Feldman and Nicholas Mathew
“Lately, across the humanities, historicism in its many guises has been in retreat—a retreat that music studies has in some respects hastened. This collection of essays asks why sound and music appear to induce exhaustion with history and historical method and how a renewed focus on musical practices might motivate fresh histories and novel forms of history writing.” –from the editors’ introduction
MARTHA FELDMAN AND NICHOLAS MATHEW Music Histories from the Edge
Music, Race, Memory
MARTHA FELDMAN Fugitive Voice
JESSICA SWANSTON BAKER Sugar, Sound, Speed: “Area Code 869” and Sonic Fiction MARTIN STOKES On the Beach: Musicology’s Migrant Crisis
Opera as History
CAROLYN ABBATE Certain Loves for Opera
GUNDULA KREUZER Butterflies on Sweet Land? Reflections on Opera at the Edges of History
MARY ANN SMART Michel Leiris and the Secret Language of Song
Cantological Histories
JAMES CHANDLER Memories Are Made of This: Notes on a New York Sound, 1959–64 MICHAEL DENNING and GARY TOMLINSON Cantologies
DELIA CASADEI Vico Signifying Nothing
Musical Pasts
NICHOLAS MATHEW Listening(s) Past: History and the Mediatic Musicology
“The goal of this special issue … is to desegregate religious studies and theology from the humanities more broadly by reasserting religion’s significance to the histories of critique, theory, and literature … [and to] pursue connections between devotional practices, literary production, and contemplative or intellectual labor so as to move the intellectual project called Religion and Literature away from an emphasis on thematics and toward an investigation of practices.” 
Of the many cross-disciplinary and topical strands that have emerged from nearly forty years of 
