Deirdre Loughridge / sounding human; music & machines

https://cssh.northeastern.edu/faculty/deirdre-loughridge/

Deirdre Loughridge is a musicologist who specializes in musical cultures of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and in histories of music technology. Her first book, Haydn’s Sunrise, Beethoven’s Shadow: Audiovisual Culture and the Emergence of Musical Romanticism (University of Chicago Press, 2016) won the Kenshur Prize for outstanding book in eighteenth-century studies. Her current research explores how music has been used to define the nature of, and relationships between humans and machines from the eighteenth century to today.