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Peter Dayan's book is a revelation: Dada was musical, and the music of Dada was often tonal, Romantic and popular in style. Dayan shows this to have been under the nose of Dada historians since the first Dada soirees but obscured by Dadaists through ideological difference, playful falsification, and Dada rules for (not) speaking about music. Ranging from New York pre-Dada to Richter's Dadascope (1961), and driven by an insatiable appetite for questions and challenging assumptions (including his own), Dayan's book is a major contribution to the field. Moreover - and more importantly, in Dada terms - it is also great fun. Stephen Forcer, University of Birmingham UK

Peter Dayan's book is a revelation: Dada was musical, and the music of Dada was often tonal, Romantic and popular in style. Dayan shows this to have been under the nose of Dada historians since the first Dada soir es but obscured by Dadaists through ideological difference, playful falsification, and Dada rules for (not) speaking about music. Ranging from New York pre-Dada to Richter's Dadascope (1961), and driven by an insatiable appetite for questions and challenging assumptions (including his own), Dayan's book is a major contribution to the field. Moreover - and more importantly, in Dada terms - it is also great fun. Stephen Forcer, University of Birmingham UK

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Peter Dayan is Professor of Word and Music Studies at the University of Edinburgh, and Obel Visiting Professor at the University of Aalborg. His publications include Art as Music, Music as Poetry, Poetry as Art, from Whistler to Stravinsky (2011) and Music Writing Literature, from Sand via Debussy to Derrida (2006).

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