@article{Rothe_2018, title={Kreuzer, Gundula. 2018. Curtain, Gong, Steam: Wagnerian Technologies of Nineteenth-Century Opera. Oakland, CA: University of California Press.}, url={https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/currentmusicology/article/view/5386}, DOI={10.7916/cm.v0i103.5386}, abstractNote={<p><span style="left: 90px; top: 254.455px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.934608);">In a recent </span><span style="left: 166.571px; top: 254.217px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.919954);">Journal of the American Musicological Society</span><span style="left: 485.565px; top: 254.455px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.956267);"> colloquy, “Discrete/</span><span style="left: 90px; top: 276.122px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.948583);">Continuous: Music and Media Theory after Kittler,” Alexander Rehding </span><span style="left: 90px; top: 297.788px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.943383);">argues that the late Friedrich Kittler’s media theory—and its subsequent </span><span style="left: 90px; top: 319.455px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.95946);">development by media theorists after Kittler (Sybille Krämer, Bernhard </span><span style="left: 90px; top: 341.122px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.925375);">Siegert, Wolfgang Ernst, Jussi Parikka)—has a great deal to offer current </span><span style="left: 90px; top: 362.788px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.934023);">musicology (Rehding et al. 2017, 225). Despite criticisms from Geoffrey </span><span style="left: 90px; top: 384.455px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00179);">Winthrop-Young (2002, 832) that Kittler adheres to a form of technologi</span><span style="left: 623.474px; top: 384.455px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif;">-</span><span style="left: 90px; top: 406.122px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.989534);">cal determinism, and focuses too narrowly on the connection between me</span><span style="left: 623.474px; top: 406.122px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif;">-</span><span style="left: 90px; top: 427.788px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00087);">dia technologies and the military-industrial complex, Rehding claims that </span><span style="left: 90px; top: 449.455px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.928964);">Kittler’s media theory can nevertheless help musicologists make sense of </span><span style="left: 90px; top: 471.122px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.0062);">the material and technological underpinnings of music and sound. </span></p>}, number={103}, journal={Current Musicology}, author={Rothe, Alexander K.}, year={2018}, month={Sep.} }