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Article: About time: Christoph Cox on Sound Art.(BOOKS)('Sound Art: Beyond Music, Between Categories' and 'Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art')(Book review)
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- Artforum International
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- November 1, 2007
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SOUND ART: BEYOND MUSIC, BETWEEN CATEGORIES, BY ALAN LICHT. NEW YORK: RIZZOLI, 2007. 304 PAGES. $50.
BACKGROUND NOISE: PERSPECTIVES ON SOUND ART, BY BRANDON LABELLE. NEW YORK: CONTINUUM, 2006. 316 PAGES. $25.
SOUND ART IS an uncertain category and practice. The label itself--in circulation since the mid-1980s but only widespread during the past decade--is dismissed by some prominent practitioners and used sloppily by critics and curators. Visual artists predominantly wonder whether sound art is not really just music, and many musicians either reject the arty whiff of the term or latch onto it in hopes of gaining art-world credibility. Those for whom the ...
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