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27 Jul 2017
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Bloomsbury Publishing US
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The groundbreaking Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music (Continuum; September 2004; paperback original) maps the aural and discursive terrain of vanguard music today. Rather than offering a history of contemporary music, Audio Culture traces the genealogy of current musical practices and theoretical concerns, drawing lines of connection between recent musical production and earlier moments of sonic experimentation. It aims to foreground the various rewirings of musical composition and performance that have taken place in the past few decades and to provide a critical and theoretical language for this new audio culture.This new and expanded edition of the Audio Culture contains twenty-five additional essays, including four newly-commissioned pieces. Taken as a whole, the book explores the interconnections among such forms as minimalism, indeterminacy, musique concrte, free improvisation, experimental music, avant-rock, dub reggae, ambient music, hip hop, and techno via writings by philosophers, cultural theorists, and composers. Instead of focusing on some crossover between high art and popular culture, Audio Culture takes all these musics as experimental practices on par with, and linked to, one another. While cultural studies has tended to look at music (primarily popular music) from a sociological perspective, the concern here is philosophical, musical, and historical.Audio Culture includes writing by some of the most important musical thinkers of the past half-century, among them John Cage, Brian Eno, Ornette Coleman, Pauline Oliveros, Maryanne Amacher, Glenn Gould, Umberto Eco, Jacques Attali, Simon Reynolds, Eliane Radigue, David Toop, John Zorn, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and many others. Each essay has its own short introduction, helping the reader to place the essay within musical, historical, and conceptual contexts, and the volume concludes with a glossary, a timeline, and an extensive discography.
Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Theories I. Music and Its Others: Noise, Sound, Silence Introduction 1. Jacques Attali, Noise and Politics 2. Luigi Russolo, The Art of Noises: Futurist Manifesto 3. Edgard Varese, The Liberation of Sound 4. Henry Cowell, The Joys of Noise 5. John Cage, The Future of Music: Credo 6. R. Murray Schafer, The Music of the Environment 7. Anne Carson, The Gender of Sound 8. Drew Daniel, Queer Sound 9. Kevin Quashie, The Quiet of Blackness: Miles Davis and John Coltrane II. Modes of Listening Introduction 10. Marshall McLuhan, Visual and Acoustic Space 11. Pierre Schaeffer, Acousmatics 12. Francisco Lopez, Profound Listening and Environmental Sound Matter 13. Brian Eno, Ambient Music 14. Pauline Oliveros, Auralizing the Sonosphere 15. Maryanne Amacher, Perceptual Geography: Third Ear Music and Structure Borne Sound 16. Evelyn Glennie, Hearing Essay 17. Iain Chambers, The Aural Walk 18. Annahid Kassabian, Ubiquitous Listening 19. Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Forensic Listening 20. Ultra-red, Organizing the Silence III. Music in the Age of Electronic Reproduction Introduction 21. Glenn Gould, The Prospects of Recording 22. Brian Eno, The Studio as Compositional Tool 23. John Oswald, Bettered by the Borrower: The Ethics of Musical Debt 24. Chris Cutler, Plunderphonia 25. Kodwo Eshun, Operating System for the Redesign of Sonic Reality 26. Kenneth Goldsmith, Six File-Sharing Epiphanies 27. Tara Rodgers, Cultivating Activist Lives in Sound Part Two: Practices IV. The Open Work Introduction 28. Umberto Eco, Poetics of the Open Work 29. John Cage, Composition as Process: Indeterminacy 30. Christoph Cox, Every Sound You Can Imagine: On Graphic Scores 31. Earle Brown, Transformations and Developments of a Radical Aesthetic 32. John Zorn, The Game Pieces 33. Anthony Braxton, Introduction to Catalog of Works 34. Lawrence Butch Morris, Notes on Conduction V. Experimental Musics Introduction 35. Michael Nyman, Towards (a Definition of) Experimental Music 36. John Cage, Introduction to Themes & Variations 37. Brian Eno, Generating and Organizing Variety in the Arts 38. Cornelius Cardew, Scratch Music Draft Constitution 39. David Toop, The Generation Game: Experimental Music and Digital Culture 40. Jennifer Walshe on The New Discipline 41. Yan Jun, Re-Invent: Experimental Music in China VI. Improvised Musics Introduction 42. Ornette Coleman, Change of the Century 43. Wadada Leo Smith, Notes (8 Pieces): Creative Music 44. Derek Bailey, Free Improvisation 45. Frederic Rzewski, Little Bangs: A Nihilist Theory of Improvisation 46. George E. Lewis, Improvised Music After 1950: Afrological and Eurological Perspectives 47. Vijay Iyer, Improvisation: Terms and Conditions 48. Mattin, Going Fragile 49. Trio Sowari et al., 27 Questions For a Start ... And Some Answers to Begin With VII. Minimalisms Introduction 50. Kyle Gann, Thankless Attempts at a Definition of Minimalism 51. Wim Mertens, Basic Concepts of Minimal Music 52. Steve Reich, Music as a Gradual Process 53. La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela, Conversation with Richard Kostelanetz 54. Tony Conrad, LYssophobia: On Four Violins 55. Susan McClary, Rap, Minimalism and Structures of Time in Late Twentieth-Century Culture 56. Philip Sherburne, Draw a Straight Line and Follow It: Minimalism in Contemporary Electronic Dance Music VIII. DJ Culture Introduction 57. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Production-Reproduction: Potentialities of the Phonograph 58. Situationist International, Detournement as Negation and Prelude 59. William S. Burroughs, The Invisible Generation 60. Paul D. Miller, Algorithms: Erasures and the Art of Memory 61. David Toop, Replicant: On Dub 62. Simon Reynolds, Post-Rock 63. Marina Rosenfeld, A Few Notes on Production and Playback IX. Electronic Music and Electronica Introduction 64. Jacques Barzun, Introductory Remarks to a Program of Works Produced at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center 65. Karlheinz Stockhausen, Electronic and Instrumental Music 66. Karlheinz Stockhausen et al., Stockhausen vs. the Technocrats 67. Eliane Radigue, The Mysterious Power of the Infinitesimal 68. Kim Cascone, The Aesthetics of Failure: 'Post-Digital' Tendencies in Contemporary Computer Music 69. Holly Herndon, Laptop Intimacy and Platform Politics Bibliography Chronology Discography Glossary Index of Quotations Index
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