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

by Douglas Kahn

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262611724
• ISBN13: 9780262611725
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 466 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher