Resonances

Michael Goddard is Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Salford, UK. He has published research in media and aesthetic theory, Eastern European film and visual culture and anomalous forms of popular music.Ben Halligan runs the Graduate Programme for the School of Media, Music and Performance at the University of Salford, UK, teaching in the areas of Critical Theory, Media Studies and Performance at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.Nicola Spelman is Senior Lecturer in Popular Music at the University of Salford, UK.

Resonances offers a conceptually diverse yet simultaneously minutely detailed investigation of noise that draws a line between popular music, cultural and sound studies. … [Reverberations and Resonances] are a significant achievement, a comprehensive collection of thinking to date about where noise fits into our cultural lives, pointing forward towards a fertile development of the field.

• part one Noise, Rock and Psychedelia1 'Kick Out the Jams': Creative Anarchy and Noise in1960s RockSheila Whiteley2 Recasting Noise: The Lives and Times of MetalMachine MusicNicola Spelman3 Shoegaze as the Third Wave: Affective Psychedelic Noise,1965–1991Benjamin Halligan4 To Be Played at Maximum Volume: Rock Music as aDisabling (Deafening) CultureGeorge McKay part two Punk Noise: Prehistories and Continuums5 Sounds Incorporated: Dissonant Sorties into PopularCultureStephen Mallinder6 Stairwells of Abjection and Screaming Bodies:Einstürzende Neubauten's Artaudian Noise MusicJennifer Shryane7 Make a Joyous Noise: The Pentecostal Nature ofAmerican Noise MusicSeb Roberts8 Roars of Discontent: Noise and Disaffection in Two Casesof Russian PunkYngvar B. Steinholt9 Noise from Nowhere: Exploring 'Noisyland's' Dark, Noisyand Experimental MusicMichael Goddard Archive: Indestructible Energy: Seeing NoiseJulie R. Kane part three Noise, Composition and Improvisation10 Xenakian Sound Synthesis: Its Aesthetics and Influence on'Extreme' Computer MusicChristopher Haworth11 Sound Barriers: The Framing Functions of Noise andSilenceAlexis Paterson12 Listening Aside: An Aesthetics of Distraction inContemporary MusiDavid Cecchetto and eldritch Priest13 Using Noise Techniques to Destabilize Composition andImprovisationEric Lyon14 Noise as Mediation: Adorno and the Turntablism of PhilipJeckErich Hertz part four Approaching Noise Musics15 Noise as Music: Is There a Historical Continuum? FromHistorical Roots to Industrial MusicJoseph Tham16 Noise as Material Impact: New Uses of Sound in NoiserelatedMovementsRafael Sarpa17 Into the Full: Strawson, Wyschnegradsky and AcousticSpace in Noise MusicsJ.-P. Caron18 Gossips, Sirens, Hi-Fi Wives: Feminizing the Threat ofNoiseMarie Thompson19 Beyond Auditive Unpleasantness: An Exploration of Noisein the Work of Filthy TurdJames Mooney and Daniel WilsonBibliographyIndex