The Contemporary Literature-Music Relationship

The Contemporary Literature-Music Relationship
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 217
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ISBN-10 : 9781317529033
ISBN-13 : 1317529030
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Book Synopsis The Contemporary Literature-Music Relationship by : Hazel Smith

Download or read book The Contemporary Literature-Music Relationship written by Hazel Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the relationship between words and music in contemporary texts, examining, in particular, the way that new technologies are changing the literature-music relationship. It brings an eclectic and novel range of interdisciplinary theories to the area of musico-literary studies, drawing from the fields of semiotics, disability studies, musicology, psychoanalysis, music psychology, emotion and affect theory, new media, cosmopolitanism, globalization, ethnicity and biraciality. Chapters range from critical analyses of the representation of music and the musical profession in contemporary novels to examination of the forms and cultural meanings of contemporary intermedia and multimedia works. The book argues that conjunctions between words and music create emergent structures and meanings that can facilitate culturally transgressive and boundary- interrogating effects. In particular, it conceptualises ways in which word-music relationships can facilitate cross-cultural exchange as musico-literary miscegenation, using interracial sexual relationships as a metaphor. Smith also inspects the dynamics of improvisation and composition, and the different ways they intersect with performance. Furthermore, the book explores the huge changes that computer-based real-time algorithmic text and music generation are making to the literature-music nexus. This volume provides fascinating insight into the relationship between literature and music, and will be of interest to those fields as well as New Media and Performance Studies.


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