ISBN10: 1441124756, ISBN13: 9781441124753, [publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. Boring Formless Nonsense intervenes in an aesthetics of failure that has largely been delimited by the visual arts and its avant-garde legacies. It focuses on contemporary experimental composition in which failure rubs shoulders with the categories of chance, noise, and obscurity. In these works we hear failure anew. We hear boredom, formlessness, and nonsense in a way that gives new purchase to aesthetic, philosophical, and ethical questions that falter in their negative capability. Reshaping debates on failure as an aesthetic category, eldritch Priest shows failure to be a highly dubious concept. The book frames recent experimental composition as a deviant kind of sound art whose affective and formal elements reflect on current issues in contemporary culture, and offers analyses of musical works and performance practices that are rarely heard, let alone considered as significant cultural phenomena - showing the role that obscurity and the esoteric have in articulating current cultural realities. Ambitious in content and experimental in its approach, Boring Formless Nonsense will challenge and fracture your views on failure, creativity, and experimental music. Boring Formless Nonsense intervenes in an aesthetics of failure that has largely been delimited by the visual arts and its avant-garde legacies. It focuses on contemporary experimental composition ...

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ISBN10: 1441124756, ISBN13: 9781441124753, [publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc] Hardcover First Edition Num Pages: 336 pages, 20. BIC Classification: AVA; HPN; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 139 x 27. Weight in Grams: 554. . 2013. 1st Edition. Hardcover. . . . .
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ISBN10: 1441124756, ISBN13: 9781441124753, [publisher: Continuum Books] Hardcover
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Continuum Books 2013 Hardcover Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.

ISBN10: 1441124756, ISBN13: 9781441124753, [publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) 2013-03-14, New York] Hardcover Language: ENG
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ISBN10: 1441124756, ISBN13: 9781441124753, [publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) 2013-03-14, New York] Hardcover Language: ENG
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ISBN10: 1441124756, ISBN13: 9781441124753, [publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group] Hardcover pp. 336 20 Illus.
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New York Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 2013 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 336 p.

ISBN10: 1441124756, ISBN13: 9781441124753, [publisher: BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC US] Hardcover Highly original in form and content, this radical work redefines the aesthetics of failure through the prism of contemporary sound and composition.
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ISBN10: 1441124756, ISBN13: 9781441124753, [publisher: Continuum Intl Pub Group] Hardcover 1st edition. 336 pages. 8.50x5.75x1.00 inches. In Stock.
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