Description: Addresses how feelings of absence and loss are woven throughout music practices in the twenty-first century.
Brief description: Christine Dysers is Assistant Professor of Music at Aalborg University. Her research focuses on music after 1989, with a particular emphasis on repetitive aesthetics and the notion of the uncanny. Christine holds a PhD in music from City, University of London and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). In 2021, she was appointed as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar in the Department of Music at Columbia University. She has published in peer-reviewed journals such as Perspectives of New Music, Twentieth-Century Music, TEMPO, and Musik & Ästhetik and has contributed to collections across several musicological disciplines. She is the author of Critical Guides to Contemporary Composers: Bernhard Lang (Intellect, 2023).
Review Quotes: The years since 2000 have seen innumerable catastrophes: 9/11, global warming, pandemics, invasions, the erosion of civil rights. Throughout these difficult times, composers have produced music that bears witness and gestures toward the possibility of hope. Music of Absence brings together essays that deal brilliantly with this new music.--Susan McClary, Case Western Reserve University