White Musical Mythologies: Sonic Presence in Modernism by Edmund Mendelssohn (En

Description: White Musical Mythologies by Edmund Mendelssohn In a narrative that extends from fin de siecle 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 Varese with Bataille, Pierre Boulez with Artaud, and John Cage with Derrida, White Musical Mythologies 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. 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 Saties dabblings with mysticism and exoticism in bohemian Montmartre of the 1890s to Vareses experience of ethnographic exhibitions and surrealist poetry in 1930s Paris, and from Boulezs 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 (ecriture), the book demonstrates that we cannot fully understand French theory in its novelty and complexity without music and sound. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Edmund Mendelssohn is Lecturer in Music at the University of California, Berkeley. Table of Contents Prelude: A Silence Filled with Speech1. The Ontology of the Ineffable: Satie and Bergson2. Ontological Machines: Varèse and Bataille3. Ontological Appropriation: Boulez and Artaud4. The Written Being of Sound: Cage and DerridaPostlude: A Simulacrum of a Presence Review "It is not common that a book this elegant and erudite comes around. White Musical Mythologies is beautifully written, evocative, and historically textured. It is an outstanding example of a new generation of research in music and philosophy."—Michael Gallope, University of Minnesota"How do you write about something that vanishes?, Edmund Mendelssohn asks in the opening pages of White Musical Mythologies. The questions vulnerability, knowing no answer is waiting in the wings, augurs a beautifully unusual book, and an often unusually beautiful one too. Mendelssohn reframes musical modernism as an epochal tragedy of missed encounter: struggling and failing to source not just sound but the now of presence itself, it seizes Being at beings cost. But his critique is lighter than tragedy, unfolding patiently, generously, lyrically—the question of musical writing not behind it, but always being reopened and to come."—Seth Brodsky, University of Chicago Details ISBN1503636631 Author Edmund Mendelssohn Short Title White Musical Mythologies Publisher Stanford University Press Language English Year 2023 ISBN-10 1503636631 ISBN-13 9781503636637 Subtitle Sonic Presence in Modernism Series Sensing Media: Aesthetics, Philosophy, and Cultures of Media Format Paperback Publication Date 2023-09-12 Imprint Stanford University Press Place of Publication Palo Alto Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2023-09-12 NZ Release Date 2023-09-12 US Release Date 2023-09-12 UK Release Date 2023-09-12 Pages 306 DEWEY 781.17 Audience Professional & Vocational Alternative 9781503636347 Illustrations 17 halftones We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159843387;

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