Holger Schulze

Sonic Fiction (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Sonic fiction is everywhere: in conversations about vernacular culture, in music videos, sound art compositions and on record sleeves, in everyday encounters with sonic experiences and in every single piece of writing about sound. Where one can find sounds one will also detect bits of fiction.

In 1998 music critic, DJ and video essayist Kodwo Eshun proposed this concept in his book "More Brilliant Than The Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction". Originally, he did so in order to explicate the manifold connections between Afrofuturism and Techno, connecting them to Jazz, Breakbeat and Electronica. His argument, his narrations and his explorative language operations however inspired researchers, artists, and scholars since then. Sonic Fiction became a myth and a mantra, a keyword and a magical spell.

This book provides a basic introduction to sonic fiction. In six chapters it explicates the inspirations for and the transformations of this concept; it explores applications and extrapolations in sound art and sonic theory, in musicology, epistemology, in critical and political theory. Sonic fiction is presented in this book as a heuristic for critique and activism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501334801
• Artikelnr.: 58391784

Autorenporträt

Holger Schulze is Professor in Musicology at the University of Copenhagen. His many authored works include Sonic Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2020) and The Sonic Persona (Bloomsbury, 2018). He is editor of The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Anthropology of Sound (Bloomsbury, 2021) and co-editor of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art (Bloomsbury, 2020). He is co-editor of the journal, Paragrana.

Inhaltsangabe

Extradition: What Is Sonic Fiction? A Force of Liberation Enforced
Landianisms More Like a Group of Otoliths 1. Sonic Thinking: A Mixillogic
MythScience of Mutantextures The Mythscience of Sonic Warfare The
Mixillogics of Sonic Epistemologies The Mutantextures of Sonic Possible
Worlds What Is Sonic Thinking? 2. Social Progress: Sensibilities of the
Implex Dath's Mixillogics The Dialectics of the Implex Valéry's
Sensibilities Even Wrong Ideas Can Be Made True 3. Black Aurality: Alien
Sonic Nontologies Black Aurality The Diffraction of Mythscience Alter
Nation, AlterDestiny & Autohistoria Decolontologies 4. Sensory
Epistemologies: Syrrhesis and Sensibility The Body of the Researcher
Syrrhesis Fiction Beyond the Idiosyncrasy of Logocentrism Multiplying
Epistemologies 5. Acid Communism: A Haunted Utopia of Sound Anticipation
and Compulsion Ghosts of Our Times Theories That Are Embodied Acid
Communism 6. NON: Ultrablack Resistance Ultrablackness NON Rhythmight
Ultrablack Resistance Inconclusion: Six Heuristics for Critique and
Activism Sonic Fiction as Activism Sonic Fiction as Critique Heuristics of
the Sonic Notes References Index