The Music of Dada: A Lesson in Intermediality for Our Times

by Peter Dayan

100 years after the Dada soir es rocked the art world, the author investigates the role that music played in the movement. Dada is generally thought of as noisy and unmusical, but The Music of Dada shows that music was at the core of Dada theory and practice. Music (by Schoenberg, Satie and many others) performed on the piano played a central role in the soir es, from the beginnings in Zurich, in 1916, to the end in Paris and Holland, seven...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367587718
• ISBN13: 9780367587710
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 182 Pages