{"product_id":"bernhard-lang-critical-guides-to-contemporary-composers-9781789387636","title":"Bernhard Lang: Critical Guides to Contemporary","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBernhard Lang: Critical Guides to Contemporary Composers\u003c\/em\u003e offers a critical guide and introduction to the work of Austrian composer Bernhard Lang (b. 1957). It identifies the phenomenon of repetition as a central concern in Lang’s thinking and making. The composer’s artistic practice is identified as one of ‘loop aesthetics’: a creative poetics in which repetition serves not only as methodology, but also as material, language, and subject matter.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The book is structured around the four central thematic nodes of philosophy, music, theatre, and politics. After introducing Lang as a composer whose work is thoroughly influenced by philosophical thought, the book develops a typology of musical repetition as it is explored and activated in Lang’s oeuvre.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Pointing towards the several repetitions within the performance of Lang’s works, the book explores the heavily trans-medial nature of the repeat across domains such as literature, dance, and theatre. Finally, the book investigates Lang’s use of textual quotation and musical borrowing.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Christine Dysers is a musicologist specialising in contemporary music aesthetics. Her research centres around repetition, politics, absence, the liminal, and the uncanny. This is the first full-length study of the works of Bernhard Lang and is a new volume in the Critical Guides to Contemporary Composers series from Intellect.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Dysers explores the concept of repetition, insightfully examining Lang's use of textual quotation, and his practice of musical borrowing. She argues that while repetition is commonly treated as reiteration of a previously explored idea, this is too reductive. She treats it more as radical instability. [...] The book is indebted to music theory, psychology and post-structuralist philosophy, and Dysers has engaged in extended interviews with the composer.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- Andy Hamilton, The Wire\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Figures vii\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements xi\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIntroduction xiii\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e1. Philosophies of Repetition 1\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e      Discovering Deleuze 4\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e      Circular thinking 12\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e      Seriality and the rhizomatic oeuvre 26\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e2. Different Repetitions 32\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e      The same, again 34\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e      The paradox of repetition 42\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e      The same, but different 50\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e      Calculating the unforeseen 62\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e3. Acts of Repetition 70\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e      Stories about repetition 73\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e      Repetitive stories 75\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e      Repetitive gestures 78\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e      Repetitive scenographies 87\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e4. Politics of Repetition 99\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e      It’s all about history 109\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e      Take the power back 119\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e      The analytic faculty 124\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e      The limits of the intertext 133\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eEpilogue 137\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eNotes 143\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eReferences 150\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIndex 163\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Intellect Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042579644759,"sku":"9781789387636","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789387636.jpg?v=1750954719","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/bernhard-lang-critical-guides-to-contemporary-composers-9781789387636","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}