Overview
"""Noise/Music"" looks at the phenomenon of noise in music, from experimental music of the early 20th century to the Japanese noise music and glitch electronica of today. It situates different musics in their cultural and historical context, and analyses them in terms of cultural aesthetics. Paul Hegarty argues that noise is a judgement about sound, that what was noise can become acceptable as music, and that in many ways the idea of noise is similar to the idea of the avant-garde. While it provides an excellent historical overview, the book's main concern is in the noise music that has emerged since the mid 1970s, whether through industrial music, punk, free jazz, or the purer noise of someone like Merzbow. The book progresses seamlessly from discussions of John Cage, Erik Satie, and Pauline Oliveros through to bands like Throbbing Gristle and the Boredoms. Sharp and erudite, and underpinned throughout by the ideas of thinkers like Adorno and Deleuze, ""Noise/Music"" is the perfect primer for anyone interested in the louder side of experimental music."
Full Product Details
Author: Paul Hegarty (University of Nottingham, UK)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Dimensions:
Width: 12.90cm
, Height: 2.10cm
, Length: 19.80cm
Weight: 0.458kg
ISBN: 9780826417268
ISBN 10: 0826417264
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 01 November 2007
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Out of stock
Reviews
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Author Information
"Paul Hegarty teaches Philosophy and Visual Culture at University College Cork, in Ireland. He is the author of books on Bataille and Baudrillard. He jointly runs the experimental record label dotdotdotmusic, and occasionally performs in the noise ""bands"" Safe, and Working With Children."
