Lawrence Kramer, Distinguished Professor of English and Music at Fordham University, is an award-winning composer and the author of fifteen previous books, most of them with University of California Press, including The Thought of Music, winner of the 2017 ASACP Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism.
"""Summing Up: Recommended."" * CHOICE * An Alex Ross ""Bookshelf"" recommendation * The Rest is Noise * ""The Hum of the World is a more-than-intriguing read and definitely one that will get you thinking about the role of sound within a cosmic context. . . . Recommended."" * Journal of the Association of Anglican Musicians *"