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Title

Audio culture : readings in modern music / edited by Christoph Cox and Daniel Warner.

Publication

New York : Continuum, 2004.

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Additional Authors

• Cox, Christoph, 1965-
• Warner, Daniel, 1954-

Description

xvii, 454 p.; 23 cm.

Subjects

• Music > 21st century > History and criticism
• Music > 20th century > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes discography (p. 419-425), bibliographical references (p. 427-448), and index.

Contents

CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: MUSIC AND THE NEW AUDIO CULTURE. Part One: Theories. -- I. Music and Its Others: Noise, Sound, Silence. Introduction -- 1. Jacques Attali, Noise and Politics -- 2. Luigi Russolo, The Art of Noises: Futurist Manifesto -- 3. Morton Feldman, Sound, Noise, Varèse, Boulez -- 4. Edgard Varèse, The Liberation of Sound -- 5. Henry Cowell, The Joys of Noise -- 6. John Cage, The Future of Music: Credo -- 7. R. Murray Schafer, The Music of the Environment -- 8. Mark Slouka, Listening for Silence: Notes on the Aural Life -- 9. Mary Russo and Dan Warner, Rough Music, Futurism, and Postpunk Industrial Noise Bands -- 10. Simon Reynolds, Noise -- 11. The Beauty of Noise: An Interview with Masami Akita of Merzbow -- II. Modes of Listening. Introduction -- 12. Marshall McLuhan, Visual and Acoustic Space -- 13. Hanns Eisler & Theodor Adorno, The Politics of Hearing -- 14. Pierre Schaeffer, Acousmatics -- 15. Francisco Lopez, Profound Listening and Environmental Sound Matter -- 16. Ola Stockfelt, Adequate Modes of Listening -- 17. Brian Eno, Ambient Music -- 18. Iain Chambers, The Aural Walk -- 19. Pauline Oliveros, Some Sound Observations -- 20. J.K. Randall, Compose Yourself -- III. Music in the Age of Electronic Reproduction. Introduction -- 21. Glenn Gould, The Prospects of Recording -- 22. Brian Eno, The Studio as Compositional Tool -- 23. John Oswald, Bettered by the Borrower: The Ethics of Musical Debt -- 24. Chris Cutler, Plunderphonia -- 25. Kodwo Eshun, Operating System for the Redesign of Sonic Reality -- Part Two: Practices. IV. The open work. Introduction -- 26. Umberto Eco, Poetics of the Open Work -- 27. John Cage, Composition as Process: Indeterminacy -- 28. Christoph Cox, Visual Sounds: On Graphic Scores -- 29. Earle Brown, Transformations and Developments of a Radical Aesthetic -- 30. John Zorn, Cobra and the Game Pieces -- 31. Anthony Braxton, Introduction to Catalog of Works -- V. Experimental Musics. Introduction -- 32. Michael Nyman, Towards (a Definition of) Experimental Music -- 33. John Cage, Introduction to Themes & Variations -- 34. Brian Eno, Generating and Organizing Variety in the Arts -- 35. Cornelius Cardew, Scratch Music Draft Constitution -- 36. David Toop, The Generation Game: Experimental Music and Digital Culture -- VI. Improvised Musics. Introduction -- 37. Ornette Coleman, Change of the Century -- 38. Derek Bailey, Free Improvisation -- 39. Frederic Rzewski, Little Bangs: A Nihilist Theory of Improvisation -- 40. George E. Lewis, Improvised Music After 1950: Afrological and Eurological Perspectives -- VII. Minimalisms. Introduction -- 41. Susan McClary, Rap, Minimalism and Structures of Time in Late Twentieth-Century Culture -- 42. Kyle Gann, Thankless Attempts at a Definition of Minimalism -- 43. Steve Reich, Music as a Gradual Process -- 44. Wim Mertens, Basic Concepts of Minimal Music -- 45. Tony Conrad, LYssophobia: On Four Violins -- 46. Philip Sherburne, Digital Discipline: Minimalism in House and Techno -- VIII. DJ Culture. Introduction -- 47. László Moholy-Nagy, ProductionReproduction: Potentialities of the Phonograph -- 48. William S. Burroughs, The Invisible Generation -- 49. Christian Marclay & Yasunao Tone, Record, CD, Analog, Digital -- 50. Paul D. Miller, Algorithms: Erasures and the Art of Memory -- 51. David Toop, Replicant: On Dub -- 52. Simon Reynolds, Post-Rock -- IX. Electronic Music and Electronica. Introduction -- 53. Jacques Barzun, Introductory Remarks to a Program of Works Produced at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center -- 54. Karlheinz Stockhausen, Electronic and Instrumental Music -- 55. Karlheinz Stockhausen et al., Stockhausen vs. the Technocrats -- 56. Ben Neill, Pleasure Beats: Rhythm and the Aesthetics of Current Electronic Music -- 57. Kim Cascone, The Aesthetics of Failure: Post-Digital Tendencies in Contemporary Computer Music -- Chronology -- Glossary -- Selected Discography -- Selected Bibliography -- Index of Quotations -- Index.

Call Number

*LE 05-5517

ISBN

• 0826416144 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0826416152 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2004009124

OCLC

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Title

Audio culture : readings in modern music / edited by Christoph Cox and Daniel Warner.

Imprint

New York : Continuum, 2004.

Bibliography

Includes discography (p. 419-425), bibliographical references (p. 427-448), and index.

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Added Author

Cox, Christoph, 1965-

Warner, Daniel, 1954-

Research Call Number

*LE 05-5517

JME 04-843