Freak out! At the acousmonium: François Bayle and the dynamics of the subject.
French electroacoustic music in the post-war decades has typically been associated with a high modernism that spurned popular or mass culture. This article situates electroacoustic music in the late 1960s and 1970s in relation to the transformation of the cultural field in this period, which unsettl...
| Publicado en: | French Cultural Studies Vol. 36; no. 1; pp. 79 - 95 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Feb2025
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