{"product_id":"white-musical-mythologies-sonic-presence-in-modernism-paperback","title":"White Musical Mythologies: Sonic Presence in Modernism - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEdmund Mendelssohn\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a narrative that extends from fin de si鐵le Paris to the 1960s, Edmund Mendelssohn examines modernist thinkers and composers who engaged with non-European and pre-modern cultures as they developed new conceptions of \"pure sound.\" Pairing Erik Satie with Bergson, Edgard Var鑚e with Bataille, Pierre Boulez with Artaud, and John Cage with Derrida, \u003ci\u003eWhite Musical Mythologies\u003c\/i\u003e offers an ambitious critical history of the ontology of sound, suggesting that the avant-garde ideal of \"pure sound\" was always an expression of western ethnocentrism. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEach of the musicians studied in this book re-created or appropriated non-European forms of expression as they conceived music ontologically, often thinking music as something immediate and immersive: from Satie's dabblings with mysticism and exoticism in bohemian Montmartre of the 1890s to Var鑚e's experience of ethnographic exhibitions and surrealist poetry in 1930s Paris, and from Boulez's endeavor to theorize a kind of musical writing that would \"absorb\" the sounds of non-European musical traditions to Cage, who took inspiration from Eastern thought as he wrote about sound, silence, and chance. These modernist artists believed that the presence effects of sound in their moment were more real and powerful than the outmoded norms of the European musical past. By examining musicians who strove to produce sonic presence, specifically by re-thinking the concept of musical writing (\u003ci\u003e馗riture\u003c\/i\u003e), the book demonstrates that we cannot fully understand French theory in its novelty and complexity without music and sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdmund Mendelssohn\u003c\/b\u003e is Lecturer in Music at the University of California, Berkeley.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 306\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 12, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51780015751456,"sku":"9781503636637","price":51.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/fd7fad768ef53ffa70778a3a2a116013.webp?v=1780521255","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/white-musical-mythologies-sonic-presence-in-modernism-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}