Paul Hegarty (musician)

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Paul Hegarty (born 1967) is an Irish professor of French and Francophone studies, an author, experimental musician, and lecturer in aesthetics. Hegarty teaches Philosophy and Visual Culture at University of Nottingham. [1]

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Contributions

Hegarty is best known as the author of Noise/Music, a 2007 noise music history. [2] But has also written books on the subjects of Sound Studies, Experimental Music, Aesthetics, History and Theory of Art, New Media and Technology, Political Theory and Philosophy, Popular Music, Electronic Music, 1960s art and French Theory, such as on Georges Bataille and Jean Baudrillard.

Hegarty is a co-series editor of the Ex:Centrics series with Bloomsbury Press.

Music

He jointly runs the experimental record label dotdotdotmusic, and performs in the noise bands Safe and La Société des Amis du Crime.

Publications

Footnotes

  1. Hegarty author page at University of Chicago Press
  2. Bookforum review of Paul Hegarty’s Noise/Music: A History by Nicole Lanctot
  3. "Noise/Music: A History". www.bookforum.com. Retrieved 6 April 2012.


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