Becoming Noise Music: Style, Aesthetics, and History

Author:   Dr. Stephen Graham (Co-Head of Department, Senior Lecturer in Music)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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9781501378669


Pages:   248
Publication Date:   09 February 2023
Format:   Hardback
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Becoming Noise Music: Style, Aesthetics, and History


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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.

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Author:   Dr. Stephen Graham (Co-Head of Department, Senior Lecturer in Music)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic USA
ISBN:  

9781501378669


ISBN 10:   150137866
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   09 February 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of 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

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Becoming Noise Music provides a much needed and compelling musical account of one of the most complex and contested descriptors in the contemporary history of sonic practices. The book carefully unpacks the multiple philosophical, political, and artistic strands of meaning that have been attached to the concept of 'noise' and weaves them back together masterfully to highlight the aesthetic, sensory, and conceptual resonances between noise and music. This is pivotal reading for those interested in understanding how noise has, in the last five decades, become aestheticized as a global musical genre with roots in powerful locally grounded musical styles and practices. * Francois Mouillot, Assistant Professor in Humanities and Cultural Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong *


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Stephen Graham is Head of the Arts & Humanities School at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, and Senior Lecturer in Music. Stephen’s book, Sounds of the Underground: A Cultural, Political, and Aesthetic Mapping of Underground and Fringe Music, was published in 2016. Stephen has pieces on popular modernism, late style and fringe music writing in journals such as Popular Music and Twentieth Century Music. Stephen is co-author of a multi-generic history of 20th-century music due out in 2022.

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