New Music and the Crises of Materiality: Sounding Bodies and Objects in Late Modernity

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Samuel Wilson

New Music and the Crises of Materiality

Sounding Bodies and Objects in Late Modernity

Samuel Wilson

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Routledge
09 January 2023

20th century & contemporary classical music; Philosophy: aesthetics; Cultural studies

This book explores the transformation of ideas of the material in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century musical composition. New music of this era is argued to reflect a historical moment when the idea of materiality itself is in flux. Engaging with thinkers such as Theodor Adorno, Sara Ahmed, Zygmunt Bauman, Rosi Braidotti, and Timothy Morton, the author considers music's relationship with changing material conditions, from the rise of neo-liberalisms and information technologies to new concepts of the natural world.

Drawing on musicology, cultural theory, and philosophy, the author develops a critical understanding of musical bodies, objects, and the environments of their interaction. Music is grasped as something that both registers material changes in society whilst also enabling us to practice materiality differently.

By: Samuel Wilson
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 272g
ISBN: 9780367489113
ISBN 10: 0367489112
Pages: 174
Publication Date: 09 January 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Introduction: New Musical Materialisms Part 1: Musical Bodies Chapter 1: The (Dis)possession of the Musical Body Chapter 2: The Composition of Posthuman Bodies Part 2: Musical Objects Chapter 3: Orientations and the Piano-Object Chapter 4: Contemporary Composition and/as Plastic Art Part 3: Musical Materials Chapter 5: On the ""Material"" of Musical Material Chapter 6: Natures and Ecologies of Composition"

Samuel Wilson's research focuses on music and twentieth- and twenty-first-century modernity. He lectures in music aesthetics at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and interdisciplinary theory at London Contemporary Dance School. He is the editor of Music--Psychoanalysis--Musicology (Routledge, 2018).