Becoming noise music : Style, aesthetics, and history / Stephen Graham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Graham, Stephen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Noise music--History and criticism.

Noise music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022

System Details:

text file

HTML/PDF

Summary:

Becoming Noise Music tells the story of noise music in its first 50 years, using a focus on the music's sound and aesthetics to do so. Part One focuses on the emergence and stabilization of noise music across the 1980s and 1990s, whilst Part Two explores noise in the twenty-first century. Each chapter contextualizes - tells the story - of the music under discussion before describing and interpreting its sound and aesthetic. Stephen Graham uses the idea of 'becoming' to capture the unresolved 'dialectical' tension between 'noise' disorder and 'musical' order in the music itself; the experiences listeners often have in response; and the overarching 'story' or 'becoming' of the genre that has taken place in this first fifty or so years. The book therefore doubles up on becoming: it is about both the becoming it identifies in, and the larger, genre-making process of the becoming of, noise music. On the latter count, it is the first scholarly book to focus in such depth and breadth on the sound and story of noise music, as opposed to contextual questions of politics, history or sociology. Relevant to both musicology and noise audiences, Becoming Noise Music investigates a vital but analytically underexplored area of avant-garde musical practice..

Contents:

Preface Chapter Chronology Noise Music Timeline Acknowledgements Introduction: Becoming Noise Music? Part I - Noise Music Then 1. Shouty and Clangy Credos: Power Electronics and Industrial Music 2. Anti-music? 3. Global Harsh Power 4. Harsh Noise in Japan 5. Harsh Noise in the US and Europe Interlude: The Story So Far and to Come Part II - Noise Music Now 6. Harsh Noise in the 21st Century 7. Noise Walls and Atmospheric Chambers 8. Noise Erotics: Traumatic Bodies and Desires 9. Hybrid Noisebloom Part One: Noise and... 10. Hybrid Noisebloom Part Two: Noise Music Now Conclusion Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501378690

1501378694

9781501378676

1501378678

OCLC:

1343870371