This interdisciplinary history and theory of sound in the arts reads the twentieth century by listening to it–to the emphatic and exceptional sounds of modernism and those on the cusp of postmodernism, recorded sound, noise, silence, the fluid sounds of immersion and dripping, and the meat voices of viruses, screams, and bestial cries.
an anthology of source materials for performance
Analyses the dramatic works of modern German, American, English, French, and Spanish writers within their historical and cultural contexts.