Index

                                 Contents


Acknowledgements		                                vii	

PART 1 BACKGROUND
	
Introduction: No Longer Confined to Living in The Age of Flying 
[with] Our Archaic Notions of Harmony'                            3	

1    Sound Art's Lineage                                         19	

2    Sound Art as Postmodernism's Exemplar                       35	

PART 2  DAWNING
	
3   The Dawning of Australian Sound Art                          61	

PART 3  POSTMODERN
	
4    Feminizing the Sound Object                                 99	

5    The Geographico-political                                  115	

6    The Quotidian and Beyond                                   147	

PART 4  ALTERMODERN
	
7    The Nostalgic: The Dawning of the Altermodern (1)          173	

8    Neo-Modernist Arts of Noise in a Post-Postmodern Era: 
     The Dawning of the Altermodern (2)                         199	

PART 5  CONCLUSION
	
Conclusion: Silence Charged                                     225	

Bibliography		                                        231	
Index                                                           257