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Debussy's Critics: Sound, Affect, and the Experience of Modernism Format:Hardcover through the lens of aDebussy's Critics: Sound, Affect, and the Experience of Modernism explores the music of Claude Debussy and its early reception in light of the rise of the empirical human sciences in Western Europe around the turn of the twentieth century. In the midst of a sea change in conceptions of the human person, the critics who wrote about Debussy's music in the Parisian press continually returning to this music's nebulous relationship to sensation and