The Music of Dada provides a historical analysis of music at Dada events, and asks why accounts of Dada have so consistently ignored music's vital presence, explaining how music has related to the other arts ever since the days of Dada. The music of Dada is the key to understanding intermediality in our time.

Peter Dayan is Professor of Word and Music Studies at the University of Edinburgh, and Obel Visiting Professor at the University of Aalborg. His publications include Art as Music, Music as Poetry, Poetry as Art, from Whistler to Stravinsky (2011) and Music Writing Literature, from Sand via Debussy to Derrida (2006).

1. Music in Zurich Dada, 1916-1918 2. New York pre-Dada and its Parisian roots: music excluded from modern art 3. The last Zurich Dada soirée: music drowned out 4. Music and anti-music in Paris Dada, 1920-1923 5. The music of Dada follows Kurt Schwitters to Holland (bypassing Berlin) and ends in the Ursonate