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Politics of Vibration Music as a Cosmopolitical Practice

Boon Marcus
Heftet / 2022 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781478018391
Publisert
2022-08-31
Utgiver
Vendor
Duke University Press
Vekt
408 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Boon Marcus

Om bidragsyterne

Marcus Boon is Professor of English at York University, author of In Praise of Copying and The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs, and coauthor of Nothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism.

Politics of Vibration Music as a Cosmopolitical Practice

Boon Marcus
Heftet / 2022 / Engelsk
Boon Marcus
Heftet / 2022 / Engelsk
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"The boldest aspect of Boon's argument . . .  is his move to the level of ontology—to the nature of being or reality itself. For him music's social and racial significance operates not at the level of social codes or experience, but as an intervention in how reality itself is organised: 'music does tell us something about being.' His framework certainly allows a place for aspects of music-making that usually get screened out of modern criticism: its religious power, its role in many cultures' sense of the world's structure. . . ."

- Dan Barrow, The Wire

<p>"This book is a wonderful contribution to the burgeoning field of vibrational studies and so-called 'esoteric' music. ... It prompts new insights into the relationship of music to time, community, politics, and philosophy, offering new perspectives for those interested in how music can be looped into new knowledges being generated within the field of sound studies."</p>

- Cat Hope, Journal of Sonic Studies

In The Politics of Vibration Marcus Boon explores music as a material practice of vibration. Focusing on the work of three contemporary musicians—Hindustani classical vocalist Pandit Pran Nath, Swedish drone composer and philosopher Catherine Christer Hennix, and Houston-based hip-hop musician DJ Screw—Boon outlines how music constructs a vibrational space of individual and collective transformation. Contributing to a new interdisciplinary field of vibration studies, he understands vibration as a mathematical and a physical concept, as a religious or ontological force, and as a psychological determinant of subjectivity. Boon contends that music, as a shaping of vibration, needs to be recognized as a cosmopolitical practice—in the sense introduced by Isabelle Stengers—in which what music is within a society depends on what kinds of access to vibration are permitted, and to whom. This politics of vibration constitutes the hidden ontology of contemporary music because the organization of vibration shapes individual music scenes as well as the ethical choices that participants in these scenes make about how they want to live in the world.
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Marcus Boon explores music as a material practice of vibration that emerges from a politics of vibration and which constructs a vibrational space of individual and collective transformation.
Introduction. Music as a Cosmopolitical Practice  1 1. Lord’s House, Nobody’s House: Pandit Pran Nath and Music as Sadhana  29 2. The Drone of the Real: The Sound-Works of Catherine Christer Hennix  75 3. Music and the Continuum  125 4. Slowed and Throwed: DJ Screw and the Decolonization of Time  179 Coda. July 2, 2020  227 Acknowledgments  231 Notes  235 Bibliography  255 Index  269
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"The boldest aspect of Boon's argument . . .  is his move to the level of ontology—to the nature of being or reality itself. For him music's social and racial significance operates not at the level of social codes or experience, but as an intervention in how reality itself is organised: 'music does tell us something about being.' His framework certainly allows a place for aspects of music-making that usually get screened out of modern criticism: its religious power, its role in many cultures' sense of the world's structure. . . ."
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“Marcus Boon models the perfect combination of rigor and imagination. In this daring and original book, he approaches vibration through mathematics, physics, and psychoanalysis to articulate an ontology of music based on space over time, frequency over duration, instantaneity over progression. The ease with which Boon pursues his ideas across experimental music, Indian classical singing, and recent hip-hop flashes an exciting glimmer of one future for music studies. With The Politics of Vibration, we are already there.”
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"The boldest aspect of Boon's argument . . .  is his move to the level of ontology—to the nature of being or reality itself. For him music's social and racial significance operates not at the level of social codes or experience, but as an intervention in how reality itself is organised: 'music does tell us something about being.' His framework certainly allows a place for aspects of music-making that usually get screened out of modern criticism: its religious power, its role in many cultures' sense of the world's structure. . . ."

- Dan Barrow, The Wire

<p>"This book is a wonderful contribution to the burgeoning field of vibrational studies and so-called 'esoteric' music. ... It prompts new insights into the relationship of music to time, community, politics, and philosophy, offering new perspectives for those interested in how music can be looped into new knowledges being generated within the field of sound studies."</p>

- Cat Hope, Journal of Sonic Studies

In The Politics of Vibration Marcus Boon explores music as a material practice of vibration. Focusing on the work of three contemporary musicians—Hindustani classical vocalist Pandit Pran Nath, Swedish drone composer and philosopher Catherine Christer Hennix, and Houston-based hip-hop musician DJ Screw—Boon outlines how music constructs a vibrational space of individual and collective transformation. Contributing to a new interdisciplinary field of vibration studies, he understands vibration as a mathematical and a physical concept, as a religious or ontological force, and as a psychological determinant of subjectivity. Boon contends that music, as a shaping of vibration, needs to be recognized as a cosmopolitical practice—in the sense introduced by Isabelle Stengers—in which what music is within a society depends on what kinds of access to vibration are permitted, and to whom. This politics of vibration constitutes the hidden ontology of contemporary music because the organization of vibration shapes individual music scenes as well as the ethical choices that participants in these scenes make about how they want to live in the world.
Les mer
Marcus Boon explores music as a material practice of vibration that emerges from a politics of vibration and which constructs a vibrational space of individual and collective transformation.
Introduction. Music as a Cosmopolitical Practice  1 1. Lord’s House, Nobody’s House: Pandit Pran Nath and Music as Sadhana  29 2. The Drone of the Real: The Sound-Works of Catherine Christer Hennix  75 3. Music and the Continuum  125 4. Slowed and Throwed: DJ Screw and the Decolonization of Time  179 Coda. July 2, 2020  227 Acknowledgments  231 Notes  235 Bibliography  255 Index  269
Les mer
"The boldest aspect of Boon's argument . . .  is his move to the level of ontology—to the nature of being or reality itself. For him music's social and racial significance operates not at the level of social codes or experience, but as an intervention in how reality itself is organised: 'music does tell us something about being.' His framework certainly allows a place for aspects of music-making that usually get screened out of modern criticism: its religious power, its role in many cultures' sense of the world's structure. . . ."
Les mer
“Marcus Boon models the perfect combination of rigor and imagination. In this daring and original book, he approaches vibration through mathematics, physics, and psychoanalysis to articulate an ontology of music based on space over time, frequency over duration, instantaneity over progression. The ease with which Boon pursues his ideas across experimental music, Indian classical singing, and recent hip-hop flashes an exciting glimmer of one future for music studies. With The Politics of Vibration, we are already there.”
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781478018391
Publisert
2022-08-31
Utgiver
Vendor
Duke University Press
Vekt
408 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Boon Marcus

Om bidragsyterne

Marcus Boon is Professor of English at York University, author of In Praise of Copying and The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs, and coauthor of Nothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism.

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