Noise, Water, Meat
A History of Sound in the Arts
$87.63
- Paperback
466 pages
- Release Date
24 August 2001
Summary
An examination of the role of sound in twentieth-century arts.This interdisciplinary history and theory of sound in the arts 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 dripping, and the meat voices of viruses, screams, and bestial cries. Focusing on Europe in the first half of the century and the United States in the postwar years, D…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262611725 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262611724 |
| Author: | Douglas Kahn |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 466 |
| Release Date: | 24 August 2001 |
| Weight: | 748g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm x 21mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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“Kahn’s research is impressive, and his presentation is thorough and precise.” - Carol J. Binkowski, Library Journal; “…a unique and important contribution to this emerging, exciting field. It is overflowing with ideas, references, and conjecture.” - John Levack Drever, The Art Book
About The Author
Douglas Kahn
Douglas Kahn is Professor at the National Institute for Experimental Arts at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Noise Water Meat- A History of Sound in the Arts (MIT Press) and Earth Sound Earth Signal- Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts and coeditor of Wireless Imagination- Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde (MIT Press).
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