{"product_id":"bernhard-lang-by-christine-dysers-9781835953563","title":"Bernhard Lang","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBernhard Lang: Critical Guides to Contemporary Composers\u003c\/em\u003e offers a critical guide and introduction to the work of Austrian composer Bernhard Lang (b. 1957). It identifies the phenomenon of repetition as a central concern in Lang’s thinking and making. The composer’s artistic practice is identified as one of ‘loop aesthetics’: a creative poetics in which repetition serves not only as methodology, but also as material, language, and subject matter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is structured around the four central thematic nodes of philosophy, music, theatre, and politics. After introducing Lang as a composer whose work is thoroughly influenced by philosophical thought, the book develops a typology of musical repetition as it is explored and activated in Lang’s oeuvre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePointing towards the several repetitions within the performance of Lang’s works, the book explores the heavily trans-medial nature of the repeat across domains such as literature, dance, and theatre. Finally, the book investigates Lang’s use of textual quotation and musical borrowing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChristine Dysers is a musicologist specialising in contemporary music aesthetics. Her research centres around repetition, politics, absence, the liminal, and the uncanny. This is the first full-length study of the works of Bernhard Lang and is a new volume in the Critical Guides to Contemporary Composers series from Intellect.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48038159876332,"sku":"9781835953563","price":29.95,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781835953563-bernhard-lang.jpg?v=1785390698","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/bernhard-lang-by-christine-dysers-9781835953563","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}