Loading the silence : Australian sound art in the post-digital age /

Kouvaras, Linda Ioanna.

Loading the silence : Australian sound art in the post-digital age / Australian sound art in the post-digital age Linda Ioanna Kouvaras. - Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, ©2013. - 1 online resource (ix, 277 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. Background -- pt. 2. Dawning -- pt. 3. Postmodern -- pt. 4. Altermodern -- pt. 5. Conclusion.

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-


English.

9781409441571 (electronic bk.) 1409441571 (electronic bk.) (hardcover) 1317103831 9781317103837 1299056148 9781299056145




Avant-garde (Music)--Australia.
Postmodernism--Australia.
Musique expérimentale--Australie.
Postmodernisme--Australie.
MUSIC--History & Criticism.
Avant-garde (Music)
Postmodernism.


Australia.


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