Danielle Shlomit Sofer

Sex Sounds (eBook, ePUB)

Vectors of Difference in Electronic Music

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An investigation of sexual themes in electronic music since the 1950s, with detailed case studies of "electrosexual music" by a wide range of creators. In Sex Sounds, Danielle Shlomit Sofer investigates the repeated focus on sexual themes in electronic music since the 1950s. Debunking electronic music's origin myth-that it emerged in France and Germany, invented by Pierre Schaeffer and Karlheinz Stockhausen, respectively-Sofer defines electronic music more inclusively to mean any music with an electronic component, drawing connections between academic institutions, radio studios, experimental music practice, hip-hop production, and histories of independent and commercial popular music. Through a broad array of detailed case studies-examining music that ranges from Schaeffer's musique concrète to a video workshop by Annie Sprinkle-Sofer offers a groundbreaking look at the social and cultural impact sex has had on audible creative practices. Sofer argues that "electrosexual music" has two central characteristics: the feminized voice and the "climax mechanism." Sofer traces the historical fascination with electrified sex sounds, showing that works representing women's presumed sexual experience operate according to masculinist heterosexual tropes, and presenting examples that typify the electroacoustic sexual canon. Noting electronic music history's exclusion of works created by women, people of color, women of color, and, in particular Black artists, Sofer then analyzes musical examples that depart from and disrupt the electroacoustic norms, showing how even those that resist the norms sometimes reinforce them. These examples are drawn from categories of music that developed in parallel with conventional electroacoustic music, separated-segregated-from it. Sofer demonstrates that electrosexual music is far more representative than the typically presented electroacoustic canon.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780262362054
• Artikelnr.: 62676608

Autorenporträt

Danielle Shlomit Sofer is a music theorist and musicologist and cofounded the LGBTQ+ Music Study Group.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction xi
I Electroacoustics of the Feminized Voice 1
1 Schaeffer and Henry's "Erotica" (1950-1951) 3
2 Annea Lockwood's Tiger Balm (1970) 23
3 Luc Ferrari's Les Danses Organiques (1973) and Presque Rien Avec Filles
(1989) 35
4 Robert Normandeau's Jeu De Langues (2009) 57
5 Juliana Hodkinson and Niels Ronsholdt's Fish & Fowl (2011-2012) 69
II Electrosexual Disturbance 89
6 Donna Summer's "Love to Love You Baby" (1975) 105
7 Alice Shield's Apocalypse (1990-1994) 125
8 Annie Sprinkle's Sluts & Goddesses Video Workshop, Sound Score by Pauline
Oliveros (1992) 163
9 Barry Truax's Song of Songs (1992) 177
10 TLC's "I'm Good at Being Bad" (1999) 199
11 Janelle Monae's "It's Code" (2013) 233
12 The Wobble Warp: THEESatisfaction's "Enchantruss" (2012), Janelle Monae
and Esperanza Spalding's "Dorothy Dandridge Eyes" (2013), and Stas THEE
Boss's "Before Anyone Else" (2017) 247
Conclusion 267
Appendix A: Alice Shields, Apocalypse, Track List 275
Appendix B: Works Incorporated in Fish & Fowl Listed with Instrumentation
and Approximate Duration, and Organized Chronologically 279
Notes 281
Bibliography 329
Index 353