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Sublime Noise: Musical Culture and the Modernist Writer
Josh Epstein
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Description for Sublime Noise: Musical Culture and the Modernist Writer
Hardback. This book will be of interest to scholars of Anglophone literary modernism and to musicologists interested in how music was given new literary and cultural meaning during that complex interdisciplinary period. Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism. Num Pages: 384 pages, 12, 3 black & white illustrations, 9 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGC6; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 150 x 28. Weight in Grams: 652.
When Stravinsky's Rite of Spring premiered in Paris in 1913, the crowd rioted in response to the harsh dissonance and jarring rhythms of its score. This was noise, not music. In Sublime Noise, Josh Epstein examines the significance of noise in modernist music and literature. How - and why - did composers and writers incorporate the noises of modern industry, warfare, and big-city life into their work? Epstein argues that, as the creative class engaged with the racket of cityscapes and new media, they reconsidered not just the aesthetic of music but also its cultural effects. Noise, after all, is ... Read more
When Stravinsky's Rite of Spring premiered in Paris in 1913, the crowd rioted in response to the harsh dissonance and jarring rhythms of its score. This was noise, not music. In Sublime Noise, Josh Epstein examines the significance of noise in modernist music and literature. How - and why - did composers and writers incorporate the noises of modern industry, warfare, and big-city life into their work? Epstein argues that, as the creative class engaged with the racket of cityscapes and new media, they reconsidered not just the aesthetic of music but also its cultural effects. Noise, after all, is ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
New
Series
Hopkins Studies in Modernism
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421415239
SKU
V9781421415239
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About Josh Epstein
Josh Epstein is an assistant professor of English at Portland State University.
Reviews for Sublime Noise: Musical Culture and the Modernist Writer
Epstein commands an impressively wide field of reference and his writing is always lively, richly textured and colourful - sometimes brilliantly so... Sublime Noise is a thought-provoking study, densely packed with intelligent connections and highly resonant. Times Literary Supplement ... he writes beautifully, has researched widely and deeply, and is clearly in command of his material. The most admirable thing ... Read more