TY  - GEN
T1  - White musical mythologies : sonic presence in modernism
T2  - Sensing media (Series)
A1  - Mendelssohn, Edmund
LA  - English
PP  - Stanford, California
PB  - Stanford University Press
YR  - 2023
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1350645211
AB  - "Examining a series of modernist thinkers and composers who engaged with non-European cultures as they pursued pure sound as a privileged presence, White Musical Mythologies pairs Erik Satie with Bergson, Edgard Varèse with Bataille, Pierre Boulez with Artaud, and John Cage with Derrida to offer an ambitious intellectual history of the colonial roots of modernist musical thought. Each 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 Varèse'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. Edmund Mendelssohn suggests that the Euro-American idea of "pure sound," and the twentieth-century quest to produce it, was premised on an assumed authority of "the West" over Europe's others. Intended for readers in philosophy, musicology, art theory, the history of modernism, sound studies, and postcolonial studies, this book demonstrates that we cannot fully understand French theory in its novelty and complexity without music and sound"--
OP  - 287
CN  - ML3877 .M46 2023
SN  - 150363664X
SN  - 9781503636644
SN  - 9781503636347
SN  - 9781503636637
KW  - Modernism (Music) : History : 20th century.
KW  - Avant-garde (Music) : France : History : 20th century.
KW  - Modernism (Aesthetics) : France : History : 20th century.
KW  - Music : Western countries : Foreign influences.
KW  - Music : Philosophy and aesthetics.
KW  - Philosophy, French : 20th century.
KW  - Postcolonialism and music.
KW  - Modernisme (Musique) : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Modernisme (Esthétique) : France : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Musique : Philosophie et esthétique.
KW  - Philosophie française : 20e siècle.
KW  - Postcolonialisme et musique.
KW  - Musique expérimentale : France : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Musique : Occident : Influence étrangère.
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction.
KW  - Avant-garde (Music)
KW  - Modernism (Aesthetics)
KW  - Modernism (Music)
KW  - Music : Foreign influences
KW  - Music : Philosophy and aesthetics
KW  - Philosophy, French
KW  - Postcolonialism and music
KW  - France
KW  - Western countries
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - History
ER  -