It opens with a clap: the sonic energies in a ceremony of the indigenous Goolarabooloo people of Australia. The modern concept of energy is only two hundred years old-an abstraction grounded in extraction-but this book takes a more expansive view. Just as Douglas Kahn’s earlier books helped introduce sound as a category for study in the arts, this new volume will be a foundational volume for future explorers in a largely uncharted domain. With contributions from scholars and critics from the visual arts, art history, anthropology, music, literature, and the history of science, it offers the first multidisciplinary investigation of the concepts and material realities of energy coursing through the arts. This book investigates energies-in the plural, the energies embedded and embodied in everything under the sun- as they are expressed in the arts.
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