Noise, Water, Meat : A History of Voice, Sound, and Aurality in the Arts.

Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Significant Noises -- 1. Immersed in Noise -- 2. Noises of the Avant-Garde -- Part II: Drawing the Line: Music, Noise, and Phonography -- 3. Concerning the Line -- 4. The Sound of Music -- 5. Ubiquitous Recording -- Part III: The Impossible Inaudible -- 6. John Cage: Silence and Silencing -- 7. Nondissipative Sounds and the Impossible Inaudible -- 8. The Parameters of All Sound -- Part IV: Water Flows and Flux -- 9. A Short History of Water Sound -- 10. In The Wake of Dripping: New York at Midcentury -- Part V: Meat Voices -- 11. Two Sounds of the Virus: William Burroughs's Pure Meat Method -- 12. Cruelty and the Beast: Antonin Artaud and Michael McClure -- Notes -- Index.