Körper Medien Musik

This study focuses on the incorporation of various aspects of physicality into the conception of artistic activity that can be broadly classified as music or the manipulation of sound. Attention is directed toward individual discourses that draw on concepts of the body that are sometimes interrelated but sometimes mutually exclusive: Thus, the focus of consideration shifts successively to the body-related discovery of vocal potential, the staging of the body in the field of tension between media for the purpose of liberation from social conventions, the investigation of interfaces between humans and machines from the perspective of hybridization, the examination of deliberately staged or actually existing disabilities, and the treatment of the body as an instrument and performative resource. Based on these narrative strands, the book sees itself on the one hand as an attempt to juxtapose composition and ephemeral artistic forms of design, but on the other hand also aims to show how corresponding phenomena can be located 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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