Image from Google Jackets

After sound : toward a critical music / G. Douglas Barrett.

By: Barrett, G. Douglas [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016Description: 243 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781501308123 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Sound in art | Silence in art | Art and music | Art and Design | Art and DesignDDC classification: 700.1'08 Summary: This volume considers contemporary art practices that reconceive music beyond the limitation of sound. The book is called 'After Sound' because music and sound are, in Barrett's account, different entities. While musicology and sound art theory alike typically equate music with pure instrumental sound, or absolute music, Barrett posits music as an expanded field of artistic practice encompassing a range of different media and symbolic relationships.
Holdings
Item type Current library Home library Shelving location Class number Status Date due Barcode Item reservations
Book Book Paul Hamlyn Library Paul Hamlyn Library Floor 3 700.108 BAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 06353118
Book Book Paul Hamlyn Library Paul Hamlyn Library Floor 3 700.108 BAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 06353126
Book Book Paul Hamlyn Library Paul Hamlyn Library Floor 3 700.108 BAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 06354904
Total reservations: 0

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This volume considers contemporary art practices that reconceive music beyond the limitation of sound. The book is called 'After Sound' because music and sound are, in Barrett's account, different entities. While musicology and sound art theory alike typically equate music with pure instrumental sound, or absolute music, Barrett posits music as an expanded field of artistic practice encompassing a range of different media and symbolic relationships.

Specialized.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.