Revolutionary Prudence Wright: leading the Minute Women in the fight for independence

Introduction. The Blessings of Noise Music / Mark Delaere

PART I. The Joys of Noise : Historical, Theoretical, Aesthetic and Cultural Perspectives. Noise Annoys, Noise is the Future : Noise in Communication and Cybernetic Theories and Popular Music Practices / Michael N. Goddard ; Save Our Noise : When Sound Out of Place Deserves Our Protection / Karin Bijsterveld ; Tracing Earlines in Ethnomusicology / Barbara Titus ; Noise, Not Music / Paul Hegarty ; Between Morphological Research and Social Criticism : Notes on the Aesthetics of Noise in Avant-Garde Music / Makis Solomos

PART II. Music-Analytical Case Studies. Analysing Non-Score Based Music / Simon Emmerson / Noise in Spectral Music / Ingrid Pustijanac ; Is There Noise in Helmut Lachenmann's Music? Temporal Form and Moments of Presence in the String Quartet Gran Torso / Christian Utz ; The Mic as a Scalpel : Skinning the Voice in Henri Chopin's Sound Poetry / Jannis Van de Sande ; Noise as Ground in Improvised Music : The Case of Chris Corsano / Diederik Mark de Ceuster ; Stretching Musicality to the Extreme : Vertical Composition in Merzbow's Noise Music / Marina Sudo.