Phil Ford

Dig

Sound and Music in Hip Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

Dig argues that in hip culture it is sound itself, and the faculty of hearing, that is the privileged part of the sensory experience. Through a string of lucid and illuminating examples, author Phil Ford shows why and how music became a central facet of hipness and the counterculture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 162mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 632g
• ISBN-13: 9780199939916
• ISBN-10: 0199939918
• Artikelnr.: 38079327

Autorenporträt

Phil Ford is Assistant Professor of Music at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. His work deals with American popular music in the cold war, performance and auditory culture studies, and the intellectual history of counterculture. He was founder and co-author of the Dial 'M' for Musicology weblog.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Introduction: Dig
Chapter 1: Koan (What Is Hip?)
1. What is Hip?
2. The Suzuki Rhythm Boys
3. The Devil's Staircase
4. The Black Spot
Chapter 2: Somewhere/Nowhere
1. Precambrian
2. Game Ideology
3. 1948: Smart Goes Crazy
4. Miles and Monk
5. Somewhere/Nowhere
Chapter 3: Sound Become Holy (The Beats)
1. Sound Become Holy
2. The Sadness of It All
3. Digging What They Dig
4. Astounding and Prophetic
5. Stenciled off the Real
Chapter 4: Hip Sensibility in an Age of Mass Counterculture
1. Right On, Mr. Horowitz
2. The Square
3. Asymmetrical Consciousness
4. Elitism
5. Mass Culture Critique
6. The Decline of Midcentury Modernism and the Birth of Postmodernism
7. Sound Museum
Chapter 5: Mailer's Sound
1. The Sound is the Thing, Man
2. Abstraction
3. Whiteness
4. Mailer's Sound
5. Enantiodromia
Chapter 6: "Let's Say That We're New, Every Minute" (John Benson Brooks)
1. Off-Minor
2. Music of the Isms
3. DJology
4. Cipher
5. Magical Hermeneutics
6. Technologies of Experience
7. Practice