Körper Medien Musik

This study focuses on the integration of various aspects of physicality into the conception of artistic practice, which, in the broadest sense, can be attributed to the field of music or the manipulation of sound. The focus is directed toward individual discourses that draw upon conceptions of the body that are partly interrelated but also partly mutually exclusive: Thus, the focus of the analysis successively turns to the body-related discovery of vocal potential, the staging of the body within the interplay of media for the purpose of liberation from social conventions, the investigation of interfaces between human and machine from the perspective of hybridization, the examination of consciously staged or actually existing disability, and the treatment of the body as an instrument and performative resource. Building on these narrative strands, the book is, on the one hand, an attempt to juxtapose composition with ephemeral forms of artistic expression; on the other hand, it also aims to demonstrate how such phenomena can be situated within the context of social and cultural developments.

Stefan Drees is a musicologist and editorial contributor to various music magazines. Most of his publications focus on music of the 20th and 21st centuries.

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