Noise, Water, Meat

A History of Sound in the Arts

Douglas Kahn

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English

MIT Press
24 August 2001

The Arts: General & Reference; Theatre: technical & background skills; Cultural studies

Series: The MIT Press

An examination of the role of sound in twentieth-century arts.

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 half of the century and the United States in the postwar years, Douglas Kahn explores aural activities in literature, music, visual arts, theater, and film. Placing aurality at the center of the history of the arts, he revisits key artistic questions, listening to the sounds that drown out the politics and poetics that generated them. Artists discussed include Antonin Artaud, George Brecht, William Burroughs, John Cage, Sergei Eisenstein, Fluxus, Allan Kaprow, Michael McClure, Yoko Ono, Jackson Pollock, Luigi Russolo, and Dziga Vertov.

By: Douglas Kahn
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 748g
ISBN: 9780262611725
ISBN 10: 0262611724
Series: The MIT Press
Pages: 466
Publication Date: 24 August 2001
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Douglas Kahn is Professor at the National Institute for Experimental Arts at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Noise Water Meat- A History of Sound in the Arts (MIT Press) and Earth Sound Earth Signal- Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts and coeditor of Wireless Imagination- Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde (MIT Press).

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

"""Kahn's research is impressive, and his presentation is thorough and precise."" - Carol J. Binkowski, Library Journal; ""...a unique and important contribution to this emerging, exciting field. It is overflowing with ideas, references, and conjecture."" - John Levack Drever, The Art Book"