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Resonances: Noise and Contemporary Music
Author(s): Michael N. Goddard (Editor), Benjamin Halligan (Editor), Nicola Spelman (Editor)
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
- Publication Date: July 18, 2013
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 288 pages
- ISBN-10: 1441159371
- ISBN-13: 9781441159373
Book Description
Resonances is a compelling collection of new essays by scholars, writers and musicians, all seeking to explore and enlighten this field of study. Noise seems to stand for a lack of aesthetic grace, to alienate or distract rather than enrapture. And yet the drones of psychedelia, the racket of garage rock and punk, the thudding of rave, the feedback of shoegaze and post-rock, the bombast of thrash and metal, the clatter of jungle and the stuttering of electronica, together with notable examples of avant-garde noise art, have all found a place in the history of contemporary musics, and are recognised as representing key evolutionary moments. Noise therefore is the untold story of contemporary popular music, and in a critical exploration of noise lies the possibility of a new narrative: one that is wide-ranging, connects the popular to the underground and avant-garde, fully posits the studio as a musical instrument, and demands new critical and theoretical paradigms of those seeking to write about music.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“The collection itself is a diverse mix…Resonances is fairly highbrow. The book’s language is intensively scholarly, and its appeal mostly academic.” ―Guy Crucianelli, PopMatters!
“When I taught my first sound studies survey in 2005, the number of booksavailable was quite small and the field felt, for lack of a better word, largely’knowable.’ In the decade since, a stunning range of new offerings from a variety of publishers has become readily available, and sound studies is a far more expansive discipline. This fact is nowhere more evident than in Bloomsbury Academic’s excellent sound studies catalog … the scholarship here shows how adept the cultural study of sound can be at unearthing the thorny political and social tensions that define contemporary culture.” ―Nicholas C. Laudadio, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Journal of Popular Music Studies
“Resonances offers a conceptually diverse yet simultaneously minutely detailed investigation of noise that draws a line between popular music, cultural and sound studies. … [Reverberations and Resonances] are a significant achievement, a comprehensive collection of thinking to date about where noise fits into our cultural lives, pointing forward towards a fertile development of the field.” – Adam Behr, University of Edinburgh, UK, Popular Music
About the Author
Nicola Spelman is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Salford, UK, where she teaches composition, musicology, and professional practice. She is Course Leader for the BA Music programme Popular Music and Recording, and her research interests surround issues of representation within popular music. Nicola’s publications include
Popular Music & the Myths of Madness (2012) and Resonances: Noise and Contemporary Music (Bloomsbury, 2013; co-edited with Michael Goddard and Benjamin Halligan).
