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

by Samuel Wilson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367489112
• ISBN13: 9780367489113
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"