http://www.amazon.com/Japanoise-Music-Circulation-Storage-Transmission/dp/082235392X
Ordered a copy of the book yesterday.
Kelly Churko introduced me to the author ("David Novak is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of California, Santa Barbara") years ago in Japan, and I also spoke to him at No Fun Fest.
From the preview pages, etc. it's great to see an academic noise book that is RELEVANT.
I have an advance reading copy, and I've been slowly masking my way through it. The academic jargon gets a bit much in parts, but overall it's a very readable and interesting book. The author obviously knows his stuff and has an abiding passion for noise.
brilliant... I am going to order it soon
This is both amazing and personally annoying since I've been working for months on a dissertation which basically says academic coverage of noise needs to be more ethnographic and then this comes along probably a bit too late to fully read it and assimilate it into the paper. Nonetheless I'll certainly get it and do my best!
nice! a friend of mine sent me some articles d.novak wrote, when they were both at columbia, back in 2006/2007 on the history of obsessive listening practice in japanese kissa (coffee/music houses) and noise. great to see more published. will have to go back and reread those articles as well.
here (http://www.music.ucsb.edu/sites/secure.lsit.ucsb.edu.musi.cms/files/sitefiles/people/novak/NovakPM2008.pdf) is one '2·5×6 metres of space: Japanese music coffeehouses and experimental practices of listening'
Found a pdf of the introduction and it is looking very promising. The style is pretty readable and easy and its nice to see somebody coming from the angle of Noise as a popular music. Definitely helps that he has clearly spent ages and ages living this stuff and acknowledges this in the text. Excited to read the whole thing!
Quote from: Duncan on June 12, 2013, 05:57:59 PM
Found a pdf of the introduction and it is looking very promising. The style is pretty readable and easy and its nice to see somebody coming from the angle of Noise as a popular music. Definitely helps that he has clearly spent ages and ages living this stuff and acknowledges this in the text. Excited to read the whole thing!
That first couple of sentences had me wondering if it was going to be Rolling Stone journalism, but it wasn't the case. The introduction gave me good cause to want to continue reading.
introduction here:
http://www.academia.edu/3599110/Japanoise_Music_at_the_Edge_of_Circulation