Interest in the voice grew in the late eighteenth century. It was above all its appearance at the peripheries and outside of human articulation and perception that came into view. Physiology, linguistic anthropology, media technology, and literature examined the vocal expressions of animals in an intense process of exchange. This study traces the historic prerequisites for and cultural interferences of bioacoustics avant la lettre.

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Denise Reimann, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.