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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art explores the evolving field of Sound Art in the 21st century, examining its post-apocalyptic themes, transcultural sonic imaginaries, and movements towards decolonisation and deinstitutionalisation. It presents interdisciplinary perspectives from musicology, art history, and sound studies, capturing recent shifts in sound art practice and theory.
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Ideal for academics, researchers, artists, curators, and students interested in sound art, contemporary musicology, and the intersection of art and social theory.

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art explores and delineates what Sound Art is in the 21st century. Sound artworks today embody the contemporary and transcultural trends towards the post-apocalyptic, a wide sensorial spectrum of sonic imaginaries as well as the decolonization and deinstitutionalization around the making of sound.

Within the areas of musicology, art history, and, later, sound studies, Sound Art has evolved at least since the 1980s into a turbulent field of academic critique and aesthetic analysis. Summoning artists, researchers, curators, and critics, this volume takes note of and reflects the most recent shifts and drifts in Sound Art—rooted in sonic histories and implying future trajectories.

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The Wire calls it a timely and important collection that pushes debates on sound art into new territories, highlighting sound as a powerful operative force. Organised Sound praises the volume for applying social and art historical theory to sound art, especially its socially engaged and politically intentional works. SoundEffects and the Journal of Sonic commend it as an innovative, comprehensive, and essential resource for both theorists and practitioners.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781501393112

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 24 February 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic

Contributors:

  • Edited by Professor Holger Schulze
  • Edited by Professor Sanne Krogh Groth
  • Edited by Sanne Krogh Groth

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 30.0mm

Width: 173.0mm

Height: 249.0mm

Weight: 1062g

Pages: 592

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Arts & Culture Music & Musicians Non-Fiction Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks

About the Author

Sanne Krogh Groth is Associate Professor of Musicology at Lund University, Sweden. She is Office Director of the Sound Environment Centre, Lund University, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the online journal Seismograf. She is author of the book Politics and Aesthetics in Electronic Music (2014) and is currently conducting field-based research on experimental music and de-colonial aesthetics in Indonesia.

Holger Schulze is Professor of Musicology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and Principal Investigator at the Sound Studies Lab. He is the author of numerous books including Sound as Popular Culture (2016), The Sonic Persona (Bloomsbury, 2018), and Sound Works (Bloomsbury, 2019).

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