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Edited by Thomas Licata. (Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance, 63.) Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. [xxiv, 242 p. ISBN 0-313-31420-9. $64.95.] Music examples, analytical tables, index.
The publication of a book within the broad field of electroacoustic music studies is always something to celebrate. Given the paradigm shift this music represents, and the impact it has had on many other forms of music, one would expect that the publication of scholarly studies should be commonplace by now, more than hall a decade after its birth. Nothing is further from the truth. The arrival of the new title, Electroacoustic Music: Analytical Perspectives, generated much initial excitement. The review that follows includes some reservations, however, that deserve a contextual explanation.
There are two key issues that are often worrisome about theoretical and, in particular, critical texts concerning electroacoustic music. They tend to he written for very knowledgeable specialists, and they tend to be more focused on sonic construction or a composer's theoretical concepts than, say, the listening experience. The first issue is problematic, as it seems to celebrate the fact that the music addressed is one primarily situated within a...
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