White musical mythologies : sonic presence in modernism /

"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 off...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mendelssohn, Edmund (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2023]
Series:Sensing media (Series)
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3616563
Table of Contents:
  • Prelude : a silence filled with speech
  • The ontology of the ineffable : Satie and Bergson
  • Ontological machines : Varèse and Bataille
  • Ontological appropriation : Boulez and Artaud
  • The written being of sound : Cage and Derrida
  • Postlude : a simulacrum of presence.