{"product_id":"9781789387636-bernhard-lang","title":"Bernhard Lang","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCritical Guides to Contemporary Composers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA critical guide and introduction to the work of Austrian composer Bernhard Lang (b. 1957) - one of Europe’s foremost leading practitioners in contemporary music. It traces the phenomenon of repetition as it works in and through Lang’s oeuvre and investigates his use of textual quotation and musical borrowing. 42 b\/w illus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\u003eThe 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\u003ePointing 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\u003eChristine 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\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56579193962870,"sku":"9781789387636","price":114.05,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27752035.jpg?v=1762149335","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781789387636-bernhard-lang","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}