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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819772303321

Autore

Fink Robert

Titolo

Repeating ourselves [[electronic resource] ] : American minimal music as cultural practice / / Robert Fink

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005

ISBN

1-282-35817-0

0-520-93894-1

1-4237-2758-4

9786612358173

1-59875-785-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Disciplina

781.3

Soggetti

Minimal music - History and criticism

Music - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The culture of eros : repetition as desire creation -- Do it ('til you're satisfied) : repetitive musics and recombinant desires -- "A colorful installment in the twentieth-century drama of consumer subjectivity" : minimalism and the phenomenology of consumer desire -- The media sublime : minimalism, advertising, and television -- The culture of Thanatos : repetition as mood regulation -- "A pox on Manfredini" : the long-playing record, the baroque revival, and the birth of ambient music -- "I did this exercise 100,000 times" : zen, minimalism, and the Suzuki method.

Sommario/riassunto

Where did musical minimalism come from-and what does it mean? In this significant revisionist account of minimalist music, Robert Fink connects repetitive music to the postwar evolution of an American mass consumer society. Abandoning the ingrained formalism of minimalist aesthetics, Repeating Ourselves considers the cultural significance of American repetitive music exemplified by composers such as Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass. Fink juxtaposes repetitive minimal music with 1970's disco; assesses it in relation to the selling structure of mass-media advertising campaigns; traces it



back to the innovations in hi-fi technology that turned baroque concertos into ambient "easy listening"; and appraises its meditative kinship to the spiritual path of musical mastery offered by Japan's Suzuki Method of Talent Education.