Music of Absence by Dysers, Christine; Edwards, Peter; Lochhead, Judith;

Rövid leírás:

Addresses how feelings of absence and loss are woven throughout music practices in the twenty-first century.

Hosszú leírás:

This collection of essays studies how music of the twenty-first century resonates with sentiments of despondency and loss in the context of the multiple existential crises of the time: climate change, political violence, financial crises, racial inequities and technological acceleration.



Investigating musical expressions of absence across a wide variety of genres and philosophical approaches, the collection aims to stimulate an interdisciplinary conversation about music as an alternative mode of thinking at a time when established frames of reasoning are called into question.



Themed sections engage with the multiplicity of emergent meanings that absence alludes to, opening new lines of inquiry into how music enacts new forms of being in the world and creates pathways to better futures.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Absence and Music Thinking
Christine Dysers, Peter Edwards, Judith Lochhead

I. Residual Energies

1. The Texture of Memory: Quotation as Absent Presence in Caroline Shaw’s Gustave Le Gray
Mark Hutchinson
2. Presentifying Absence: Memorial Practices in Sample-based Music
Lorenzo Montefinese
3. Vaporwave, Hypnosis and the Mimetic Voice
Alec Wood
4. Voidgaze and Phantom Genres: Functions and Dysfunctions of Music Genres on Streaming Platforms
Mattia Merlini
II. Erasures
5. On the Absence of Female Singing: Law and Praxis in Iran
Payam Pilvar
6. Lacuna and Parergon in Late Vocal Works by Hans Joachim Hespos
Clare Lesser
7. Transitions into Absence: On the Musical Aesthetics of Disappearance
Jakob Maria Schermann
III. Precarities
8. The Lament, Loss and the Power of Speaking in Music
Peter Edwards
9. The Music of Trauma: Tracing the Real in Wang Xilin’s Piano Concerto Op. 56
Arturo Irisarri Izquierdo
10. Olga Neuwirth’s CoronAtion Cycle: Into the Void and Beyond
Martina Bratić
IV. Overload
11. Music for Uncertain Times: Excess, Loss and the Abyss
Christine Dysers
12. Absence, Non-Absence, Words and Music in Kurtág’s Fin de partie
Mark Berry
13. Listening Within the Absence: The Musical Potential of Noise in the Compositions of Peter Ablinger
Marina Sudo
V. Negative Space
14. The Ontoriography of Music in the Twenty-First Century: Absence and Identification
Samuel J. Wilson
15. ‘I Wish You Could Hear This’: Sonic Absence, Subjective Point-of-Audition and d/Deaf Sensoriality in Contemporary Television
Peter Adams
16. Spiritual and Aesthetic Spaces in Arvo Pärt’s Lamentate and Adam’s Lament
Kristina Socanski Celik
17. On the Airy Touch of Music: Sonic Thinking in Pandemic Times
Judith Lochhead
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