'Becoming Noise Music' book available now

[Mr Klang]

'Becoming Noise Music' Stephen Graham, Bloomsbury, 2023:

''Becoming Noise Music' is the first book to focus exclusively and comprehensively on the music of Noise music, as opposed to contextual questions of politics, history or sociology... It tells the story of Noise music in its first 50 years, using a focus on the music's sound and aesthetics to do so. Part One focuses on the emergence and stabilization of Noise music across the 1980s and 1990s, whilst Part Two explores Noise in the twenty-first century...'

Contents includes:

I. Industrial Music & Power Electronics
II. Anti-music?
III. Global Harsh Power
IV. Harsh Noise in Japan
V. Harsh Noise in the US and Europe

Excerpt from Chapter II:

'Anti-music' doesn't describe a scene, a movement, a genre, or even a subgenre or substyle of noise or any other form. As much as its possible to point to previous usage, it is one of a set of terms put forward by artists such as The New Blockaders and The Haters to describe aspects of their work... The focus of this chapter is very much on what I see as the core of what I'm calling the 'anti-musical' style, in particular The New Blockaders and The Haters...'

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/becoming-noise-music-9781501378669/

[Balor/SS1535]

This looks very good.  Is anyone familiar with the author's previous book?  It sounds interesting as well.

[re:evolution]

Looks VERY interesting - but not for the 81 pounds price tag! Ha! What?!

Can anyone explain exactly why academic publishing has these ridiculously high prices? Short print runs cannot be the excuse, given with modern print methods I have published a personal 400 page hardback book project in low copies (around 10 copies) for less than the asking price of a single copy of this.

[Andrew McIntosh]

Looks VERY interesting - but not for the 81 pounds price tag! Ha! What?!

Can anyone explain exactly why academic publishing has these ridiculously high prices? Short print runs cannot be the excuse, given with modern print methods I have published a personal 400 page hardback book project in low copies (around 10 copies) for less than the asking price of a single copy of this.

I think it's because they tend to have a limited audience, so they're not expecting to sell many copies of any single given publication. I also don't think they have the same business standards/ethics as someone in the underground music scene.

[Balor/SS1535]

Looks VERY interesting - but not for the 81 pounds price tag! Ha! What?!

Can anyone explain exactly why academic publishing has these ridiculously high prices? Short print runs cannot be the excuse, given with modern print methods I have published a personal 400 page hardback book project in low copies (around 10 copies) for less than the asking price of a single copy of this.

I think it's because they tend to have a limited audience, so they're not expecting to sell many copies of any single given publication. I also don't think they have the same business standards/ethics as someone in the underground music scene.

This 100%.