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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Series List
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Epigraph
  7. Contents
  8. Introduction
  9. 1. Toward a History of Decomposing Pianos
  10. 2. Piano as Medium, Material, and Representation
  11. 3. Destruction, Decay, and Entangled Bodies
  12. 4. Media and Material Transformations
  13. 5. From Damage to Salvage: Instruments for Listening
  14. Coda: Re-membering
  15. Acknowledgments
  16. Notes
  17. Index
  18. Author Biographies

Open access for this book has been made possible with funding from the Linnaeus University Library and the Linnaeus Center for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies.

Cover design by Frances Baca

Cover art: Annea Lockwood’s Piano Drowning, presented by Soundlands, permanently installed at Plas Bodfa, Wales, in 2021. Photograph By Dominic Chenell.

Excerpt from Joan Larkin, “No One Wants Them,” Old Stranger (Alice James Books, 2024), published by permission of Alice James Books.

Copyright 2026 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota

Piano Decompositions is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.

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ISBN 978-1-4529-7457-6 (ebook)

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A Cataloging-in-Publication record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

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