{"product_id":"sounds-wild-and-broken","title":"Sounds Wild and Broken","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"tad-over-container\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"title-detail-tab-line\" class=\"ui container tm-max-width\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tad-container\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tad-about-container\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mb-4\"\u003eA lyrical exploration of the diverse sounds of our planet, the creative processes that produced these marvels, and the perils that sonic diversity now faces\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mb-4\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eWe live on a planet alive with song, music, and speech. David Haskell explores how these wonders came to be. In rain forests shimmering with insect sound and swamps pulsing with frog calls we learn about evolution’s creative powers. From birds in the Rocky Mountains and on the streets of Paris, we discover how animals learn their songs and adapt to new environments. In the startlingly divergent sonic vibes of the animals of different continents, we experience the legacies of plate tectonics, the deep history of animal groups and their movements around the world, and the quirks of aesthetic evolution.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStarting with the origins of animal song and traversing the whole arc of Earth history, Haskell illuminates and celebrates the emergence of the varied sounds of our world. In mammoth ivory flutes from Paleolithic caves, violins in modern concert halls, and electronic music in earbuds, we learn that human music and language belong within this story of ecology and evolution. Yet we are also destroyers, now silencing or smothering many of the sounds of the living Earth. Haskell takes us to threatened forests, noise-filled oceans, and loud city streets, and shows that sonic crises are not mere losses of sensory ornament. Sound is a generative force, and so the erasure of sonic diversity makes the world less creative, just, and beautiful. The appreciation of the beauty and brokenness of sound is therefore an important guide in today’s convulsions and crises of change and inequity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSounds Wild and Broken\u003c\/i\u003e is an invitation to listen, wonder, belong, and act.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"w-100 bg-white\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"w-100 bg-white\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ui container border-top-gray-300 position-relative\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pt-1 d-flex justify-content-space-between pb-5\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50391275667649,"sku":"9781984881564","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0074\/0638\/7247\/files\/CopyofNewStoreSite-BackgroundRemover_3_e4880063-4df2-4c4c-bdcd-adf337bc7673.png?v=1783788553","url":"https:\/\/store.smm.org\/products\/sounds-wild-and-broken","provider":"The Science Museum of Minnesota","version":"1.0","type":"link"}