Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-9-2023
Journal Title
Journal of Musicological Research
Volume Number
42
Issue Number
3
First Page
172
Last Page
175
Version
Post-print: the version of the article having undergone peer review but prior to being published
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a CC BY-NC-ND License.
Disciplines
Music
Abstract
The first book dedicated to the life and work of composer Maryanne Amacher (1938- 2009), Wild Sound: Maryanne Amacher and the Tenses of Audible Life begins in medias res. Author Amy Cimini introduces us to Amacher by peering into one of her brainstorming sessions, depicting an imaginative scene set in the 1990s at Mills College. Cimini describes Amacher seated at her desk, passionately inscribing a “big quote” (announced in “heavy black Sharpie,” Cimini notes) from feminist scholar Donna Haraway’s Simians, Cyborgs and Women (1991): “I want a feminist writing….” Then, as Amacher ponders the quote’s implications for her own creative production, she switches to red pen and writes: “I want to make a music…”
Digital USD Citation
Noble, Charissa, "Review of Wild Sound: Maryanne Amacher and the Tenses of Audible Life, by Amy Cimini" (2023). Music: Faculty Scholarship. 2.
https://digital.sandiego.edu/musc-faculty/2
Notes
Original Publication: Noble, C. (2023). Review of Wild Sound: Maryanne Amacher and the Tenses of Audible Life, by Amy Cimini. Journal of Musicological Research, 42(3), 172–175. https://doi.org/10.1080/01411896.2023.2250703