The Oxford Handbook of Music Listening in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Christian Thorau is Professor of Musicology at the University of Potsdam and author of Vom Klang zur Metapher - Perspektiven der musikalischen Analyse. He has held fellowships at the National Humanities Center, N.C. and at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna. His research priorities include the popularisation of musicological knowledge, the history of music listening, and the theory and practice of music analysis. Hansjakob Ziemer is Research Scholar and Head of Cooperation and Communication at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, author of Die Moderne hören: Das Konzert als urbanes Forum, 1890-1940, and co-editor of Handbuch Sound: Geschichte-Begriffe-Ansätze. Among his publications are articles on the cultural history of sound, emotions, listening, architecture, and journalism.