Includes bibliographical references and index.

Noise, Rock and Psychedelia: ‘Kick Out the Jams’: Creative Anarchy and Noise in 1960s Rock / Sheila Whiteley -- Recasting Noise: The Lives and Times of Metal Machine Music / Nicola Spelman -- Shoegaze as the Third Wave: Affective Psychedelic Noise, 1965–1991 / Benjamin Halligan -- To Be Played at Maximum Volume: Rock Music as a Disabling (Deafening) Culture / George McKay -- Punk Noise: Prehistories and Continuums: Sounds Incorporated: Dissonant Sorties into Popular Culture / Stephen Mallinder -- Stairwells of Abjection and Screaming Bodies: Einstürzende Neubauten’s Artaudian Noise Music / Jennifer Shryane -- Make a Joyous Noise: The Pentecostal Nature of American Noise Music / Seb Roberts -- Roars of Discontent: Noise and Disaffection in Two Cases of Russian Punk / Yngvar B. Steinholt -- Noise from Nowhere: Exploring ‘Noisyland’s’ Dark, Noisy and Experimental Music / Michael Goddard -- Archive: Indestructible Energy: Seeing Noise / Julie R. Kane -- Noise, Composition and Improvisation: Xenakian Sound Synthesis: Its Aesthetics and Influence on ‘Extreme’ Computer Music / Christopher Haworth -- Sound Barriers: The Framing Functions of Noise and Silence / Alexis Paterson -- Listening Aside: An Aesthetics of Distraction in Contemporary Music / David Cecchetto and eldritch Priest -- Using Noise Techniques to Destabilize Composition and Improvisation / Eric Lyon -- Noise as Mediation: Adorno and the Turntablism of Philip Jeck / Erich Hertz -- Approaching Noise Musics: Noise as Music: Is There a Historical Continuum? From Historical Roots to Industrial Music / Joseph Tham -- Noise as Material Impact: New Uses of Sound in Noiserelated Movements / Rafael Sarpa -- Into the Full: Strawson, Wyschnegradsky and Acoustic Space in Noise Musics / J.-P. Caron -- Gossips, Sirens, Hi-Fi Wives: Feminizing the Threat of Noise / Marie Thompson -- Beyond Auditive Unpleasantness: An Exploration of Noise in the Work of Filthy Turd / James Mooney and Daniel Wilson -- Bibliography -- Index

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