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White Musical Mythologies
Sonic Presence in Modernism
Edmund Mendelssohn

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Contents
Prelude: A Silence Filled with Speech
1 The Ontology of the Ineffable: Satie and Bergson
2 Ontological Machines: Varèse and Bataille
3 Ontological Appropriation: Boulez and Artaud
4 The Written Being of Sound: Cage and Derrida
Postlude: A Simulacrum of a Presence