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ISBN-10: 1478018399
ISBN-13: 9781478018391
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publish Date: 08/31/2022
Dimensions: 9.00" L, 6.00" W, 0.60" H

The Politics of Vibration: Music as a Cosmopolitical Practice

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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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"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" (9/1/2022 12:00:00 AM)
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Details

ISBN-10: 1478018399
ISBN-13: 9781478018391
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publish Date: 08/31/2022
Dimensions: 9.00" L, 6.00" W, 0.60" H
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