After Sound av G Douglas (Independent Scholar USA) Barrett

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<i>After Sound</i> considers contemporary art practices that reconceive music beyond the limitation of sound. This book is called <i>After Sound </i>because music and sound are, in Barrett''s account, different entities. While musicology and sound art theory alike typically equate music with pure instrumental sound, or absolute music, Barrett posits music as an expanded field of artistic practice encompassing a range of different media and symbolic relationships. The works discussed in <i>After Sound</i> thus use performance, text scores, musical automata, video, social practice, and installation while they articulate a novel aesthetic space for a radically engaged musical practice. Coining the term "critical music," this book examines a diverse collection of art projects which intervene into specific political and philosophical conflicts by exploring music¿s unique historical forms.Through a series of intimate studies of artworks surveyed from the visual and performing arts of the pas