Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music
by Christoph Cox (Editor), Daniel Warner (Editor)
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"'Audio Culture : Readings in Modern Music' maps the aural and discursive terrain of vanguard music today. Rather than offering a history of contemporary music, it traces the genealogy of current musical practices and theoretical concerns, drawing lines of connection between today's radical music and earlier moments of sonic experimentation. Via writings by composers, philosophers and cultural theorists, 'Audio Culture' explores the interconnections among such musical forms as minimalism, show more indeterminacy, musique concre︡te, free improvisation, experimental music, avant-rock, dub reggae, Ambient music, HipHop and Techno. It aims to foreground the various rewiring of musical composition and performance that have taken place in the past few decades and to provide a critical and theoretical language for this new culture of sound."--Back cover. show lessTags
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More of an academic reader rather than a general text, this collection of essays is nonetheless very fascinating. This maps the aural and discursive terrain of vanguard modern music today. It connects the rhizomatic threads of radical music with earlier experimentation. Writings from composers, philosophers, and cultural theorists permeate these texts diving into the connections from minimalism, indeterminacy, avant rock dub reggae, musique concrete, free improvisation, ambient and experimental music. to hip hop and techno.
In other words, meat for a dedicated Wire magazine reader.
In other words, meat for a dedicated Wire magazine reader.
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Christoph Cox is professor of philosophy at Hampshire College.
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- 2004
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