Changing technologies lead to constant renegotiations of the relationships between humans and machines. Technology often exerts both anticipated and unexpected effects on the making and performance of knowledge, as well as on how human beings behave. Deirdre Loughridge’s Sounding Human: Music and Machines, 1740/2020 sheds new light on the human-machine dialectic in musicological scholarship. She explicates how the entanglement of the two from the Enlightenment to the present day has transformed the epistemological and experiential aspects of music, proposing that the “various musical human-machine configurations can have a helpfully dispersive, centrifugal effect on our thinking, experiences, and decisions” (p. 176). Her investigation of this human-machine paradigm contributes to previous multidisciplinary endeavors of scholars such as Annette Richards, Bonnie Gordon, Rebecca Cypess, Emily I. Dolan, Thomas Patteson, and Adelheid Voskuhl, bringing fresh insights into the dichotomy between the natural and the artificial in music and the ways in which it has...

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