Abstract:Taking Jürgen Müller's (2012) article The sound of history and acoustic memory: Where psychology and history converge as a starting point, we make a critical reflection about the way in which sound has been represented in history and the many ways in which the intersection between sound and history has been understood. We centre our critique on two components of Müller's work. The first of these is a bias according to which the past is seen as a reality that can be accessed directly, as if one could travel b… Show more
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