Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art

<i>The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art</i> explores and delineates what Sound Art is in the 21st century. Sound artworks today embody the contemporary and transcultural trends towards the post-apocalyptic a wide sensorial spectrum of sonic imaginaries as well as the decolonization and deinstitutionalization around the making of sound. <br/><br/>Within the areas of musicology art history and later sound studies Sound Art has evolved at least since the 1980s into a turbulant field of academic critique and aesthetic analysis. Summoning artists researchers curators and critics this volume takes note of and reflects the most recent shifts and drifts in Sound Art--rooted in sonic histories and implying future trajectories.