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Description: Further DetailsTitle: White Musical MythologiesCondition: NewSubtitle: Sonic Presence in ModernismISBN-10: 1503636348EAN: 9781503636347ISBN: 9781503636347Publisher: Stanford University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 09/12/2023Description: In a narrative that extends from fin de siècle Paris to the 1960s, Edmund Mendelssohn examines modernist thinkers and composers who engaged with non-European and pre-modern cultures as they developed new conceptions of "pure sound." Pairing Erik Satie with Bergson, Edgard Varèse with Bataille, Pierre Boulez with Artaud, and John Cage with Derrida, White Musical Mythologies offers an ambitious critical history of the ontology of sound, suggesting that the avant-garde ideal of "pure sound" was always an expression of western ethnocentrism. Each of the musicians studied in this book re-created or appropriated non-European forms of expression as they conceived music ontologically, often thinking music as something immediate and immersive: from Satie's dabblings with mysticism and exoticism in bohemian Montmartre of the 1890s to Varèse's experience of ethnographic exhibitions and surrealist poetry in 1930s Paris, and from Boulez's endeavor to theorize a kind of musical writing that would "absorb" the sounds of non-European musical traditions to Cage, who took inspiration from Eastern thought as he wrote about sound, silence, and chance. These modernist artists believed that the presence effects of sound in their moment were more real and powerful than the outmoded norms of the European musical past. By examining musicians who strove to produce sonic presence, specifically by re-thinking the concept of musical writing (écriture), the book demonstrates that we cannot fully understand French theory in its novelty and complexity without music and sound. Supported by the AMS 75 PAYS Fund of the American Musicological Society, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Edmund MendelssohnGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityTopic: Society & CultureBook Series: Sensing Media: Aesthetics, Philosophy, and Cultures of MediaRelease Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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Book Title: White Musical Mythologies

Title: White Musical Mythologies

Subtitle: Sonic Presence in Modernism

ISBN-10: 1503636348

EAN: 9781503636347

ISBN: 9781503636347

Release Date: 09/12/2023

Release Year: 2023

Country/Region of Manufacture: US

Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality

Topic: Society & Culture

Number of Pages: 306 Pages

Publication Name: White Musical Mythologies : Sonic Presence in Modernism

Language: English

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Item Height: 0.8 in

Publication Year: 2023

Subject: History & Criticism, Philosophy & Social Aspects, Movements / Deconstruction, Media Studies

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 18.1 Oz

Item Length: 9 in

Author: Edmund Mendelssohn

Subject Area: Music, Philosophy, Social Science

Series: Sensing Media: Aesthetics, Philosophy, and Cultures of Media Ser.

Item Width: 6 in

Format: Hardcover

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