Sublime Noise: Musical Culture and the Modernist Writer

by Josh Epstein

What is the significance of noise in modernist music and literature?

When Stravinsky's Rite of Spring premiered in Paris in 1913, the crowd rioted in response to the harsh dissonance and jarring rhythms of its score. This was noise, not music. In Sublime Noise, Josh Epstein examines the significance of noise in modernist music and literature. How--and why--did composers and writers incorporate the noises of modern...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421415232
• ISBN13: 9781421415239
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher