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Becoming Noise Music 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. Each chapter contextualizes tells the story of the music under discussion before describing and interpreting its sound and aesthetic.Stephen Graham uses the idea of becoming' to capture the unresolved dialectical' tension between noise' disorder and musical' order in the music itself; the experiences listeners often have in response; and the overarching story' or becoming' of the genre that has taken place in this first fifty or so years. The book therefore doubles up on becoming: it is about both the becoming it identifies in, and the larger, genre-making process of the becoming of, noise music. On the latter count, it is the first scholarly book to focus in such depth and breadth

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