@article{García Molina_2014, title={Review of David Novak. 2013. Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.}, url={https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/currentmusicology/article/view/5329}, DOI={10.7916/cm.v0i97.5329}, abstractNote={<p><span style="left: 90px; top: 219.858px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.845722);">First, a disclaimer: this is not a review if “book review” implies the exis</span><span style="left: 623.474px; top: 219.858px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: sans-serif;">-</span><span style="left: 90px; top: 241.525px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.915361);">tence of an explicit map or the provision of a summary of sorts. </span><span style="left: 561.636px; top: 241.287px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.818076);">Japanoise </span><span style="left: 90px; top: 263.192px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.908076);">is an extraordinary book that requires something else, a di</span><span style="left: 517.643px; top: 263.192px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.02568);">ff</span><span style="left: 527.763px; top: 263.192px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.880091);">erent strategy. </span><span style="left: 90px; top: 284.858px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.844751);">Just like a project around Noise with a capital N (a musical genre), and </span><span style="left: 90px; top: 306.525px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.8674);">noise (a more general concept), required from David Novak a di</span><span style="left: 582.452px; top: 306.525px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.02568);">ff</span><span style="left: 592.572px; top: 306.525px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.886567);">erent </span><span style="left: 90px; top: 328.192px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.911616);">kind of engagement, a di</span><span style="left: 273.113px; top: 328.192px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.02568);">ff</span><span style="left: 283.233px; top: 328.192px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.937977);">erent kind of listening, a di</span><span style="left: 483.085px; top: 328.192px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.02568);">ff</span><span style="left: 493.205px; top: 328.192px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.967678);">erent kind of writ</span><span style="left: 623.474px; top: 328.192px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: sans-serif;">-</span><span style="left: 90px; top: 349.858px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.891177);">ing. Novak’s </span><span style="left: 184.328px; top: 349.62px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.819527);">Japanoise, </span><span style="left: 262.274px; top: 349.858px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.898328);">based on over ten years of </span><span style="left: 461.942px; top: 349.858px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.07);">fi</span><span style="left: 471.75px; top: 349.858px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.910295);">eldwork in Japan and </span><span style="left: 90px; top: 371.525px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.943757);">North America,</span><span style="left: 208.84px; top: 371.525px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.870061);">provides no transparent, easy de</span><span style="left: 441.234px; top: 371.525px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.07);">fi</span><span style="left: 451.042px; top: 371.525px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.902597);">nitions, nor does it strive </span><span style="left: 90px; top: 393.192px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.905832);">to produce a de</span><span style="left: 205.463px; top: 393.192px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.07);">fi</span><span style="left: 215.272px; top: 393.192px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.90896);">nitive history of Noise in any sense, whether as genre or </span><span style="left: 90px; top: 414.858px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.862755);">metaphor. And while Novak’s work pushes towards an approximation to </span><span style="left: 90px; top: 436.525px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.889647);">Noise as a potent critique of many things (some of which will be addressed </span><span style="left: 90px; top: 458.192px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.927195);">in this review), in </span><span style="left: 220.912px; top: 457.953px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.811404);">Japanoise</span><span style="left: 289.277px; top: 458.192px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.865127);"> he manages to investigate generative questions </span><span style="left: 90px; top: 479.858px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.930246);">around Noise without merely opposing it to other categories (like music, </span><span style="left: 90px; top: 501.525px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.905682);">signal, or information), enacting an all–out critique of a tendency to de</span><span style="left: 602.435px; top: 501.525px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.07);">fi</span><span style="left: 612.243px; top: 501.525px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.85915);">ne </span><span style="left: 90px; top: 523.192px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.86927);">objects and subjects too neatly in ethnomusicological and anthropologi</span><span style="left: 623.474px; top: 523.192px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: sans-serif;">-</span><span style="left: 90px; top: 544.858px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.833007);">cal research. In Novak’s hands, Noise can refer to an underground genre </span><span style="left: 90px; top: 566.525px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.85593);">of music, forms of circulation, a commodity, and everyday techniques of </span><span style="left: 90px; top: 588.192px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.907315);">creating and listening.</span></p>}, number={97}, journal={Current Musicology}, author={García Molina, Andrés}, year={2014}, month={Apr.} }