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This book includes work on avant-garde music developed in the domain of classical music as well. In addition to already well-established (social) historical and aesthetical perspectives on noise and noise music, this volume also offers contributions by music analysts.
List of contents
Introduction: The Blessings of Noise Music, PART I : The Joys of Noise: Historical, Theoretical, Aesthetic and Cultural Perspectives, 1. Noise Annoys, Noise is the Future: Noise in Communication and Cybernetic Theories and Popular Music Practices, 2. Save Our Noise: When Sound Out of Place Deserves Our Protection, 3. Tracing Earlines in Ethnomusicology, 4. Noise, Not Music, 5. Between Morphological Research and Social Criticism: Notes on the Aesthetics of Noise in Avant-Garde Music, PART II: Music-Analytical Case Studies, 6. Analysing Non-Score Based Music, 7. Noise in Spectral Music, 8. Is There Noise in Helmut Lachenmann’s Music? Temporal Form and Moments of Presence in the String Quartet Gran Torso, 9. The Mic as a Scalpel – Skinning the Voice in Henri Chopin’s Sound Poetry, 10. Noise as Ground in Improvised Music: The Case of Chris Corsano, 11. Stretching Musicality to the Extreme: Vertical Composition in Merzbow’s Noise Music
About the author
Mark Delaere is Professor in Musicology at the University of Leuven. His research covers music from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with a special focus on the interaction between analysis, history, theory and aesthetics. Book publications include Funktionelle Atonalität (1993), New Music, Aesthetics and Ideology (ed. 1995), Rewriting Recent Music History. The Development of Early Serialism 1947–1957 (ed. 2011) and the bilingual edition (German, English) of the complete correspondence between Karlheinz Stockhausen and Karel Goeyvaerts (2017, together with Imke Misch). He is currently leading the research project on noise music at the University of Leuven.
Summary
This book includes work on avant-garde music developed in the domain of classical music as well. In addition to already well-established (social) historical and aesthetical perspectives on noise and noise music, this volume also offers contributions by music analysts.
