How Long to Read Creatures of the Air

How Long Does it Take to Read Creatures of the Air?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 52 minutes to read Creatures of the Air by J. Q. Davies

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

An account of nineteenth-century music in Atlantic worlds told through the history of the art’s elemental medium, the air. Often experienced as universal and incorporeal, music seems an innocent art form. The air, the very medium by which music constitutes itself, shares with music a claim to invisibility. In Creatures of the Air, J. Q. Davies interrogates these claims, tracing the history of music’s elemental media system in nineteenth-century Atlantic worlds. He posits that air is a poetic domain, and music is an art of that domain. From West Central African ngombi harps to the European J. S. Bach revival, music expressed elemental truths in the nineteenth century. Creatures of the Air tells these truths through stories about suffocation and breathing, architecture and environmental design, climate strife, and racial turmoil. Contributing to elemental media studies, the energy humanities, and colonial histories, Davies shows how music, no longer just an innocent luxury, is implicated in the struggle for control over air as a precious natural resource. What emerges is a complex political ecology of the global nineteenth century and beyond.

How long is Creatures of the Air?

Creatures of the Air by J. Q. Davies is 291 pages long, and a total of 73,041 words.

This makes it 98% the length of the average book. It also has 89% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Creatures of the Air Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 39 minutes to read Creatures of the Air aloud.

What Reading Level is Creatures of the Air?

Creatures of the Air is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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