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Title Resonances : noise and contemporary music / edited by Michael Goddard, Benjamin Halligan and Nicola Spelman
Published New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 375 pages) : illustrations
Contents FC; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction; Michael Goddard, Benjamin Halligan and Nicola Spelman; PART ONE Noise, Rock and Psychedelia; 1 'Kick Out the Jams': Creative Anarchy and Noise in 1960s Rock; Sheila Whiteley; 2 Recasting Noise: The Lives and Times of Metal Machine Music; Nicola Spelman; 3 Shoegaze as the Third Wave: Affective Psychedelic Noise, 1965-91; Benjamin Halligan; 4 To Be Played at Maximum Volume: Rock Music as a Disabling (Deafening) Culture; George McKay; PART TWO Punk Noise: Prehistories and Continuums
5 Sounds Incorporated: Dissonant Sorties into Popular CultureStephen Mallinder; 6 Stairwells of Abjection and Screaming Bodies: Einstürzende Neubauten's Artaudian Noise Music; Jennifer Shryane; 7 Make a Joyous Noise: The Pentecostal Nature of American Noise Music; Seb Roberts; 8 Roars of Discontent: Noise and Disaffection in Two Cases of Russian Punk; Yngvar B. Steinholt; 9 Noise from Nowhere: Exploring 'Noisyland's' Dark, Noisy and Experimental Music; Michael Goddard; Archive: Indestructible Energy: Seeing Noise; Julie R. Kane; PART THREE Noise, Composition and Improvisation
10 Xenakian Sound Synthesis: Its Aesthetics and Influence on 'Extreme' Computer MusicChristopher Haworth; 11 Sound Barriers: The Framing Functions of Noise and Silence; Alexis Paterson; 12 Listening Aside: An Aesthetics of Distraction in Contemporary Music; David Cecchetto and eldritch Priest; 13 Using Noise Techniques to Destabilize Composition and Improvisation; Eric Lyon; 14 Noise as Mediation: Adorno and the Turntablism of Philip Jeck; Erich Hertz; PART FOUR Approaching Noise Musics; 15 Noise as Music: Is There a Historical Continuum? From Historical Roots to Industrial Music; Joseph Tham
16 Noise as Material Impact: New Uses of Sound in Noise-related MovementsRafael Sarpa; 17 Into the Full: Strawson, Wyschnegradsky and Acoustic Space in Noise Musics; J.-P. Caron; 18 Gossips, Sirens, Hi-Fi Wives: Feminizing the Threat of Noise; Marie Thompson; 19 Beyond Auditive Unpleasantness: An Exploration of Noise in the Work of Filthy Turd; James Mooney and Daniel Wilson; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary Resonances is a compelling collection of new essays by scholars, writers and musicians, all seeking to explore and enlighten this field of study. Noise seems to stand for a lack of aesthetic grace, to alienate or distract rather than enrapture. And yet the drones of psychedelia, the racket of garage rock and punk, the thudding of rave, the feedback of shoegaze and post-rock, the bombast of thrash and metal, the clatter of jungle and the stuttering of electronica, together with notable examples of avant-garde noise art, have all found a place in the history of contemporary musics, and are recog
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Noise music -- History and criticism
Avant-garde (Music) -- History -- 20th century
Music -- 20th century -- Philosophy and aesthetics
Music -- Social aspects.
Rock & Pop music.
Philosophy: aesthetics.
Theory of music & musicology.
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
MUSIC -- Reference.
Avant-garde (Music)
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics
Music -- Social aspects
Noise music
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Goddard, Michael, 1965-
Halligan, Benjamin
Spelman, Nicola
ISBN 9781441118370
1441118373
9781441146137
144114613X