1st Edition

New Music and the Crises of Materiality Sounding Bodies and Objects in Late Modernity

By Samuel Wilson Copyright 2021
182 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

182 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

182 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores the transformation of ideas of the material in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century musical composition. New music of this era is argued to reflect a historical moment when the idea of materiality itself is in flux. Engaging with thinkers such as Theodor Adorno, Sara Ahmed, Zygmunt Bauman, Rosi Braidotti, and Timothy Morton, the author considers music's... Read more

Introduction: New Musical Materialisms

Part 1: Musical Bodies

Chapter 1: The (Dis)possession of the Musical Body

Chapter 2: The Composition of Posthuman Bodies

Part 2: Musical Objects

Chapter 3: Orientations and the Piano-Object

Chapter 4: Contemporary Composition and/as Plastic Art

Part 3: Musical Materials

Chapter 5: On the "Material" of Musical Material

Chapter 6: Natures and Ecologies of Composition

Biography

Samuel Wilson's research focuses on music and twentieth- and twenty-first-century modernity. He lectures in music aesthetics at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and interdisciplinary theory at London Contemporary Dance School. He is the editor of Music--Psychoanalysis--Musicology (Routledge, 2018).