New Music and the Crises of Materiality: Sounding Bodies and Objects in Late Modernity

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Previously published material
Acknowledgements
Introduction: New musical materialisms
	(After) modernism and modernity
	Chapter outlines
	Notes
Part I: Musical bodies
	Chapter 1: The (dis)possession of the musical body
		Modernist musical bodies: medium and resistance
		Crises of materiality
		Problematic musical bodies
		Outward bodily inwardness
		Notes
	Chapter 2: The composition of posthuman bodies
		Music-making and body-making
		Extended voices
		Notes
Part II: Musical objects
	Chapter 3: Orientations and the piano-object
		Orientations, bodies, and objects
		Different orientations
		Furniture and fetish (in passive affirmation)
		Presence and spectacle (in active affirmation)
		Process and entropy (in passive negation)
		Absenting and obliteration (in active negation)
		The dialectics of musical objecthood
		Notes
	Chapter 4: Contemporary composition and/as plastic art
		‘On some relationships …’
		The sculptural through the painterly
		Music’s re-examination of the painterly
		Sonic sculpturality
		Plasticity during liquid times
		Notes
Part III: Musical materials
	Chapter 5: On the ‘material’ of musical material
		On the ‘critical’ of critical theory
		On the ‘theory’ of materialist theory
		Matter and activity
		Dualisms and dialectics
		Agency and musical material
		Notes
	Chapter 6: Natures and ecologies of composition
		Soundings: oak, ginger, mushroom
		Sounding (post)natural ecologies
		Temporality, precarity, and the anticipatory
		Notes
Afterword
	Notes
Bibliography
Index