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Dieter Lesage, Ina Wudtke

Black Sound White Cube (Book)

Label: Löcker Verlag

Format: Book

Genre: Sound Art

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German language, hard cover. 124 pages * The fact that the White Cube produces, records and celebrates primarily white sound is an aspect of its ideology that even its staunchest critics have never mentioned. The white 'audiology' of the White Cube has always been generously overlooked, or as it might be better to say, 'overheard' - and this despite the many occasions that the White Cube's regular and irregular activities would offer to a critical ear willing to listen. But the White Cube truly does not invite its visitors to critical listening. It decontextualizes the sound until it sounds white.

Therefore, the black sound in John Cage's work remains inaudible to this day, just as black people were invisible in the 1950s when Ralph Ellison published his novel Invisible Man.

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Cat. number: ISBN 978-3-85409-612-2
Year: 2022