Noise, water, meat : a history of sound in the arts / Douglas Kahn.
Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT, 2001.Edition: 1st MIT Press pbkDescription: ix, 455p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780262611725:
- 0262611724
- 700
- K25 2001
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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.