White Musical Mythologies - Sonic Presence in Modernism

Pairing Erik Satie with Bergson, Edgard Varèse with Bataille, Pierre Boulez with Artaud, and John Cage with Derrida, White Musical Mythologies offers an ambitious critical history of the ontology of sound, suggesting that the avant-garde ideal of ""pure sound"" was always an expression of western ethnocentrism.