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Noise, water, meat : a history of sound in the arts /

"In this, interdisciplinary history and theory of sound in the arts, Douglas Kahn reads the twentieth century by listening to it - to the emphatic and exceptional sounds of modernism and those on the cusp of postmodernism, recorded sound, noise, silence, the fluid sounds of immersion and drippi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kahn, Douglas, 1951- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1999.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Listening through history; prelude: modernism; explanations and qualifications
  • pt. I. Significant noises. Immersed in noise. Noises of the avant-garde
  • pt. II. Drawing the line: music, noise, and phonography. Concerning the line. The sound of music. Ubiquitous recording
  • pt. III. The impossible inaudible. John Cage: silence and silencing. Nondissipative sounds and the impossible inaudible. The parameters of all sound
  • pt. IV. Water flows and flux. A short art history of water sound. In the wake of dripping: New York at midcentury
  • pt. V. Meat voices. Two sounds of the virus: William Burroughs's pure meat method. Cruelty and the beast: Antonin Artaud and Michael McClure.