Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts

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"The dual task here is to listen through history to sound and through sound to history." This interdisciplinary history and theory of sound in the arts reads the twentieth century by listening to it--to the emphatic and exceptional sounds of modernism and those on the cusp of postmodernism, recorded sound, noise, silence, the fluid sounds of immersion and dripping, and the meat voices of viruses, screams, and bestial cries. Focusing on Europe in the first h... More >>

Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts