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Noise, water, meat : a history of sound in the arts / Douglas Kahn.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT, 2001.Edition: 1st MIT Press pbkDescription: ix, 455p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780262611725:
  • 0262611724
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 700
LOC classification:
  • K25 2001
Contents:
Introduction: Listening through history; prelude: modernism; explanations and qualifications -- [Pt. I. Significant noises] -- Immersed in noise -- Noises of the avant-grade -- [Pt. II. Drawing the line: music, noise, and phonography] -- Concerning the line -- The sound of music -- Ubiquitous recording -- [Pt. III. The impossible inaudible] -- John Cage: silence and silencing -- Nondissipative sounds and the impssible inaudible -- The parameters of all sound -- [Pt. IV. Water flows and flux] -- A short history of water sound -- In the wake of dripping: New York at midcentury -- [Pt. V. Meat voices] -- Two sounds of the virus: William Burrough's pure meat method -- Cruelty and the beast: Antonin Artaud and Michael McClure.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
General Lending Wexford Campus Library Wexford General Lending 700 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 61231

Originally published: 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Listening through history; prelude: modernism; explanations and qualifications -- [Pt. I. Significant noises] -- Immersed in noise -- Noises of the avant-grade -- [Pt. II. Drawing the line: music, noise, and phonography] -- Concerning the line -- The sound of music -- Ubiquitous recording -- [Pt. III. The impossible inaudible] -- John Cage: silence and silencing -- Nondissipative sounds and the impssible inaudible -- The parameters of all sound -- [Pt. IV. Water flows and flux] -- A short history of water sound -- In the wake of dripping: New York at midcentury -- [Pt. V. Meat voices] -- Two sounds of the virus: William Burrough's pure meat method -- Cruelty and the beast: Antonin Artaud and Michael McClure.

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