The Body in Sound, Music and Performance: Studies in Audio and Sonic Arts

The Body in Sound, Music, and Performance is a multidisciplinary book that explores how the body can be used as a site and center for knowledge making and creative production, reshaping and deconstructing ideas about performance practices, composition, and listening/sensing. It features contributions from international contributors and emphasizes developments beyond the Western world.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 14 July 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The Body in Sound, Music, and Performance is a groundbreaking collection of cutting-edge contributions from women who are actively engaged in and conducting research on contemporary sound practice. This highly interdisciplinary book showcases a diverse range of international contributors and places significant emphasis on developments beyond the Western world, including emerging movements across Latin America. Within the book, the body is positioned as both the site and the focal point for the generation and creation of knowledge. The chapters delve into the ways in which insightful theoretical analysis, novel methodologies, innovative practices, and, at times, within the socio-cultural contexts of racism, sexism, and classicism, the body can transcend, reshape, and challenge established notions about performance practices, composition, and listening/sensing.

This book holds immense appeal to practitioners and researchers alike in the fields of sonic arts, sound design, music, acoustics, and performance. It serves as a valuable resource for those seeking to expand their understanding of the multifaceted relationship between the body, sound, music, and performance, and offers insightful perspectives on the potential for the body to be a catalyst for artistic innovation and transformation.

Weight: 560g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367441944