Loading the Silence: Australian Sound Art in the Post-Digital Age

ISBN-13: 9781138271708 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 288 str.

Linda Ioanna Kouvaras

Opis

Linda Kouvaras explores the ways in which selected sound art works demonstrate creatively how sound is embedded within local, national, gendered and historical environments. Taking Australian music as its primary - but not sole - focus, the book not only covers discussions of technological advancement, but also engages with aesthetic standpoints, through interviews, theoretical developments, analysis and cultural milieux for a contemporary Australian, and wider postmodern, context. Developing new methodologies for synergies between musicology and cultural studies, the book uncovers a new post-postmodern aesthetic trajectory, which Kouvaras locates as developing over the past two decades - the altermodern.

Spis treści

Part 1 Background; Introduction; Chapter 1 Sound Art’s Lineage; Chapter 2 Sound Art as Postmodernism’s Exemplar; Part 2 Dawning; Chapter 3 The Dawning of Australian Sound Art; Part 3 Postmodern; Chapter 4 Feminizing the Sound Object; Chapter 5 The Geographico-political; Chapter 6 The Quotidian and Beyond; Part 4 Altermodern; Chapter 7 The Nostalgic; Chapter 8 Neo-Modernist Arts of Noise in a Post-Postmodern Era; Part 5 Conclusion; Chapter 101 Conclusion;

O autorze

Dr Linda Kouvaras is a Senior Lecturer at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, The University of Melbourne, Australia.