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Resonances
Noise and Contemporary Music
Resonances
Noise and Contemporary Music
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Description
Resonances is a compelling collection of new essays by scholars, writers and musicians, all seeking to explore and enlighten this field of study. Noise seems to stand for a lack of aesthetic grace, to alienate or distract rather than enrapture. And yet the drones of psychedelia, the racket of garage rock and punk, the thudding of rave, the feedback of shoegaze and post-rock, the bombast of thrash and metal, the clatter of jungle and the stuttering of electronica, together with notable examples of avant-garde noise art, have all found a place in the history of contemporary musics, and are recognised as representing key evolutionary moments. Noise therefore is the untold story of contemporary popular music, and in a critical exploration of noise lies the possibility of a new narrative: one that is wide-ranging, connects the popular to the underground and avant-garde, fully posits the studio as a musical instrument, and demands new critical and theoretical paradigms of those seeking to write about music.
Table of Contents
1 'Kick Out the Jams': Creative Anarchy and Noise in
1960s Rock
Sheila Whiteley
2 Recasting Noise: The Lives and Times of Metal
Machine Music
Nicola Spelman
3 Shoegaze as the Third Wave: Affective Psychedelic Noise,
1965–1991
Benjamin Halligan
4 To Be Played at Maximum Volume: Rock Music as a
Disabling (Deafening) Culture
George McKay
part two Punk Noise: Prehistories and Continuums
5 Sounds Incorporated: Dissonant Sorties into Popular
Culture
Stephen Mallinder
6 Stairwells of Abjection and Screaming Bodies:
Einstürzende Neubauten's Artaudian Noise Music
Jennifer Shryane
7 Make a Joyous Noise: The Pentecostal Nature of
American Noise Music
Seb Roberts
8 Roars of Discontent: Noise and Disaffection in Two Cases
of Russian Punk
Yngvar B. Steinholt
9 Noise from Nowhere: Exploring 'Noisyland's' Dark, Noisy
and Experimental Music
Michael Goddard
Archive: Indestructible Energy: Seeing Noise
Julie R. Kane
part three Noise, Composition and Improvisation
10 Xenakian Sound Synthesis: Its Aesthetics and Influence on
'Extreme' Computer Music
Christopher Haworth
11 Sound Barriers: The Framing Functions of Noise and
Silence
Alexis Paterson
12 Listening Aside: An Aesthetics of Distraction in
Contemporary Musi
David Cecchetto and eldritch Priest
13 Using Noise Techniques to Destabilize Composition and
Improvisation
Eric Lyon
14 Noise as Mediation: Adorno and the Turntablism of Philip
Jeck
Erich Hertz
part four Approaching Noise Musics
15 Noise as Music: Is There a Historical Continuum? From
Historical Roots to Industrial Music
Joseph Tham
16 Noise as Material Impact: New Uses of Sound in Noiserelated
Movements
Rafael Sarpa
17 Into the Full: Strawson, Wyschnegradsky and Acoustic
Space in Noise Musics
J.-P. Caron
18 Gossips, Sirens, Hi-Fi Wives: Feminizing the Threat of
Noise
Marie Thompson
19 Beyond Auditive Unpleasantness: An Exploration of Noise
in the Work of Filthy Turd
James Mooney and Daniel Wilson
Bibliography
Index
Product details

Published | 18 Jul 2013 |
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Format | Ebook (PDF) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 288 |
ISBN | 9781441118370 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
Illustrations | 92 |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
About the contributors
Reviews
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Resonances offers a conceptually diverse yet simultaneously minutely detailed investigation of noise that draws a line between popular music, cultural and sound studies. … [Reverberations and Resonances] are a significant achievement, a comprehensive collection of thinking to date about where noise fits into our cultural lives, pointing forward towards a fertile development of the field.
Adam Behr, University of Edinburgh, UK, Popular Music
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From overviews of specific artists--Lou Reed, Einsturzende Neubaten, Diamanda Galas, Filthy Turd--to theorizing about the sonics of feminism, computer sounds, turntablism, and composition, this timely book resituates noise not as Jacques Attali's societal 'herald of change' but as a vital and everyday part of the new media landscape. It's a great addition to any serious sound scholar's library.
Gina Arnold, Adjunct Professor of Rhetoric at University of San Francisco and author of Route 666: On The Road To Nirvana
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The collection itself is a diverse mix...Resonances is fairly highbrow. The book's language is intensively scholarly, and its appeal mostly academic.
Guy Crucianelli, Pop Matters!
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The value of this anthology lies in its attempt to be as complete as possible, and its inclusion of perspectives that often go unconsidered.
Aurelio Cianciotta, Neural (Bloomsbury translation)
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In the decade since, a stunning range of new offerings from a variety of publishers has become readily available, and sound studies is a far more expansive discipline. This fact is nowhere more evident than in Bloomsbury Academic's excellent sound studies catalog ... the scholarship here shows how adept the cultural study of sound can be at unearthing the thorny political and social tensions that define contemporary culture.
Nicholas C. Laudadio, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Journal of Popular Music Studies
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Resonances carries its readers from the ideas of Theodor Adorno to 'Hi-Fi Wives,' Russian punk and 60s rock. If you want to know what Iannis Xenakis, Eric Clapton, and the 'Filthy Turd aesthetic' have in common, this is the book for you! Handsomely illustrated and extensively documented, Resonances is a must-read volume for modernists and postmodern cultural critics alike.
Michael Saffle, Endorsement