A Music for Every Day: Exploring the Links Between Sound and Common Life

  • Christophe Levaux Université de Liège
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i3.6558
Keywords: Landscape music, Futurism, Muzak, Vaporwave

Abstract

This essay is a synthesis of the relationship between music and everyday life, from the Futurists to the present day. The perspective adopted places the phenomenon in a broader and well-documented framework from the point of view of the history of music but also of the cultural history of the 20th and 21st centuries.

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Author Biography

Christophe Levaux, Université de Liège

Christophe Levaux holds a doctorate in musicology (University of Liège) and is a F.R.S.-FNRS research fellow. His research delves into the history of experimental and popular music in the 20th century. He has published on the subject in the journals Tacet, Rock Music Studies and Organised Sound; in 2018 he has edited with Olivier Julien a book on the notion of “repetition” in popular music (Bloomsbury Academics). His doctoral thesis, We Have Always Been Minimalist, will be published by the University of California Press in 2020.

Published
2019-12-27
How to Cite
LevauxC. (2019). A Music for Every Day: Exploring the Links Between Sound and Common Life. SigMa - Rivista Di Letterature Comparate, Teatro E Arti Dello Spettacolo, (3), 335-352. https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i3.6558
Issue
No 3 (2019): The forms and the days. Representations of everyday life in literature, audiovisual, visual and performing arts
Section
Monographic section I

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