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Book SynopsisMarcus Boon explores music as a material practice of vibration that emerges from a politics of vibration and which constructs a vibrational space of individual and collective transformation.
Trade Review"The boldest aspect of Boon's argument . . . is his move to the level of ontology—to the nature of being or reality itself. For him music's social and racial significance operates not at the level of social codes or experience, but as an intervention in how reality itself is organised: 'music does tell us something about being.' His framework certainly allows a place for aspects of music-making that usually get screened out of modern criticism: its religious power, its role in many cultures' sense of the world's structure. . . ." -- Dan Barrow * The Wire *
Table of ContentsIntroduction. Music as a Cosmopolitical Practice 1
1. Lord’s House, Nobody’s House: Pandit Pran Nath and Music as Sadhana 29
2. The Drone of the Real: The Sound-Works of Catherine Christer Hennix 75
3. Music and the Continuum 125
4. Slowed and Throwed: DJ Screw and the Decolonization of Time 179
Coda. July 2, 2020 227
Acknowledgments 231
Notes 235
Bibliography 255
Index 269
