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Author: David Novak
Publisher: Duke University Press
Imprint: Duke University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.585kg
ISBN: 9780822353799
ISBN 10: 0822353792
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 03 June 2013
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Edgy, compelling, and sharply insightful, this is the definitive book on Japanoise. Through his personal involvement in Noise scenes across two continents and over two decades, David Novak takes readers into the experience of Noise: its production and performance through apparati of wires, pedals, amplifiers, and tape loops, its intensity on the stage and in one's ears and body. - Anne Allison,author of Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination This is a striking book: theoretically exciting, aesthetically intriguing, and well crafted. Japanoise is an extreme case study of modern musical subjectivity that demonstrates how core cultural ideas are formed on the fringe. Novak's treatment of circulation as embedded in the creative process will shift the debate in ethnomusicology, popular music studies, and global media studies. - Louise Meintjes,author of Sound of Africa! Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio The book should prove particularly interesting to musicians; Novak has done a good job in describing the instrumental set up of the artists whose shows he watches. Just as interesting, though, is hearing that members of Boredoms were once welcomed as noise idols on mainstream Japanese TV in the 1990s - I'm sure the many Arashi variety shows on air could benefit from the likes of Merzbow showing up. --JapanTimes.co.jp
Edgy, compelling, and sharply insightful, this is the definitive book on Japanoise. Through his personal involvement in Noise scenes across two continents and over two decades, David Novak takes readers into the experience of Noise: its production and performance through apparati of wires, pedals, amplifiers, and tape loops, its intensity on the stage and in one's ears and body. - Anne Allison,author of Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination This is a striking book: theoretically exciting, aesthetically intriguing, and well crafted. Japanoise is an extreme case study of modern musical subjectivity that demonstrates how core cultural ideas are formed on the fringe. Novak's treatment of circulation as embedded in the creative process will shift the debate in ethnomusicology, popular music studies, and global media studies. - Louise Meintjes,author of Sound of Africa! Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio
Author Information
David Novak is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
