Main entry:

Kahn, Douglas, 1951-

Title & Author:

Noise, water, meat : a history of sound in the arts / Douglas Kahn.

Edition:

1st MIT Press pbk.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2001.

Description:

ix, 455 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 360-445) and index.
Introduction: Listening through history; prelude: modernism; explanations and qualifications -- pt. I. Significant noises -- Immersed in noise -- Noises of the avant-grade -- pt. II. Drawing the line: music, noise, and phonography -- Concerning the line -- The sound of music -- Ubiquitous recording -- pt. III. The impossible inaudible -- John Cage: silence and silencing -- Nondissipative sounds and the impssible inaudible -- The parameters of all sound -- pt. IV. Water flows and flux -- A short history of water sound -- In the wake of dripping: New York at midcentury -- pt. V. Meat voices -- Two sounds of the virus: William Burrough's pure meat method -- Cruelty and the beast: Antonin Artaud and Michael McClure.

Summary:

This text is an interdisciplinary history of sound in the arts, that reads the emphatic and exceptional sounds of modernism and those on the cusp of postmodernism. It explores aural activities in literature, visual arts, theatre and film.

ISBN:

0262611724 (pbk.)
9780262611725 (pbk.)
0262112434 (hc)
9780262112437 (hc)

Subject:

Sound in art.
Arts, Modern 20th century.
Son dans l'art.
Arts 20e siècle.
Arts, Modern.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 256841
Call No.: BIB 187277
Status: Available