| Dissonance: Auditory Aesthetics in Ancient Greece Contributor(s): Gurd, Sean Alexander (Author) |
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ISBN: 0823269655 ISBN-13: 9780823269655 Publisher: Fordham University Press OUR PRICE: $57.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Instruction & Study - Theory - Philosophy | Aesthetics |
| Dewey: 111.850 |
| LCCN: 2015035228 |
| Series: Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 9.1" (1.05 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the four centuries leading up to the death of Euripides, Greek singers, poets, and theorists delved deeply into auditory experience. They charted its capacity to develop topologies distinct from those of the other senses; contemplated its use as a communicator of information; calculated its power to express and cause extreme emotion. They made sound too, artfully and self-consciously creating songs and poems that reveled in sonorousness. Dissonance reveals the commonalities between ancient Greek auditory art and the concerns of contemporary sound studies, avant-garde music, and aesthetics, making the argument that classical Greek song and drama were, in fact, an early European avant-garde, a proto-exploration of the aesthetics of noise. The book thus develops an alternative to that romantic ideal which sees antiquity as a frozen and silent world. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gurd, Sean Alexander: - Sean Alexander Gurd is Associate Professor in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He is the author of Iphigenias at Aulis: Textual Multiplicity, Radical Philology and Work in Progress: Literary Revision as Social Performance in Ancient Rome. |
