Resonances Noise and Contemporary Music

by Goddard, Michael N.; Halligan, Benjamin; Spelman, Nicola

• ISBN13: 9781441110541
• ISBN10: 1441110542
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-07-18
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Noise seems to stand for a lack of aesthetic grace, to alienate or distract rather than enrapture. And yet the drones of psychedelia, the racket of garage rock and punk, the thudding of rave, the feedback of shoegaze and post-rock, the bombast of thrash and metal, the clatter of jungle and the stuttering of electronica, together with notable examples of avant-garde noise art, have all found a place in the history of contemporary musics, and are recognised as representing key evolutionary moments. Noise therefore is the untold story of contemporary popular music, and in a critical exploration of noise lies the possibility of a new narrative - one that is wide-ranging, connects the popular to the underground and avant-garde, fully posits the studio as a musical instrument, and demands new critical and theoretical paradigms of those seeking to write about music. Resonances is a compelling collection of new essays by scholars, writers and musicians - all seeking to explore and enlighten this field of study.

Author Biography

Nicola Spelman is senior lecturer in popular music at the University of Salford, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Michael Goddard, Benjamin Halligan and Nicola SpelmanNoise, Rock and Psychedelia1.Sheila Whiteley, ' "Kick Out the Jams" Creative Anarchy and Noise in 1960s Rock' 2.Nicola Spelman, ' "Kill Your Sons": Lou Reed's Verification of Psychiatry's Covert Social Function' 3.Benjamin Halligan, 'To Here Knows Where: Shoegaze and the Second Wave of Psychedelia' 4.George McKay, 'Pop crips - A deafening mode-rock music as a disabling culture-music-induced hearing loss' Punk and Post-Punk Noise5.Stephen Mallinder, 'Sounds Incorporated: Dissonant Sorties into Popular Music' 6.Jennifer Shryane, 'Stairwells of abjection and screaming bodies: Einstürzende Neubauten's Artaudian noise-music.' 7.Seb Roberts, 'Make a Joyous Noise: The Pentecostal nature of American Noise Music' 8.Yngvar Steinholt, 'Screams of the Excluded: A Russian case of Aesthetic and Ideological Noise' 9.Michael Goddard, 'Left-handed Blows in Noisyland: Contrasting Tendencies in Antipodean Postpunk' Noise, Composition and Improvisation10.Christopher Haworth, 'Xenakisian Sound Synthesis: Its Aesthetics and Influence on 'Computer Noise.' 11.Alexis Paterson, 'Sound Barriers: Noise, Silence and the Conceptualisation of Art' 12.eldritch priest, 'Listening Aside: The Aesthetics of Distraction in Contemporary Composition' 13.Eric Lyon, 'Using Noise Techniques to Destabilize Composition and Improvisation' 14.Erich Hertz, 'Benjamin and Adorno on the Noise of Modernity'Approaching Noise Musics15.J. P. Caron, 'Noise and Hearing: Acoustic Spaces in Noise Musics' 16.Joseph Tham, 'Noise as Music: Is There an Historical Continuum?' 17.Marie Thompson, 'Staging the Sonic Other: Noise Music as a Masquerade of Madness' 18.Rafael Sarpa, 'Noise as Material Impact: New Uses of Sound in Noise Related Movements' 19.James Mooney and Daniel Wilson, 'Beyond Auditive Unpleasantness: A Case Study of Filthy Turd' BibliographyIndex