1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910973217803321

Titolo

Music, electronic media, and culture / / edited by Simon Emmerson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Aldershot ; ; Burlington, USA, : Ashgate, c2000

ISBN

1-315-59687-3

1-317-09171-X

1-281-09865-5

9786611098650

0-7546-8632-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

EmmersonSimon <1950->

Disciplina

306.4&#x2019;84

306.484

786.7

Soggetti

Electronic music - History and criticism

Music and technology

Music - 20th century - History and criticism

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

Cover; Contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction; Part One: Listening and interpreting; 1 Through and around the acousmatic: the interpretation of electroacoustic sounds; 2 Simulation and reality: the new sonic objects; 3 Beyond the acousmatic: hybrid tendencies in electroacoustic music; Part Two: Cultural noise; 4 Plunderphonics; 5 Crossing cultural boundaries through technology?; 6 Cacophony; Part Three: New places, spaces and narratives; 7 Art on air: a profile of new radio art; 8 'Losing touch?': the human performer and electronics

9 Stepping outside for a moment: narrative space in two works for sound aloneIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Technology revolutionised the ways that music was produced in the twentieth century. As that century drew to a close and a new century begins a new revolution in roles is underway. The separate categories of composer, performer, distributor and listener are being challenged,



while the sounds of the world itself become available for musical use. All kinds of sounds are now brought into the remit of composition, enabling the music of others to be sampled (or plundered), including that of unwitting musicians from non-western cultures. This sound world may appear contradictory - stimulating and in

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910968151503321

Autore

Pippin Robert B. <1948->

Titolo

Hollywood westerns and American myth : the importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for political philosophy / / Robert B. Pippin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven [Conn.], : Yale University Press, c2010

ISBN

0-300-14578-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Collana

The Castle lectures in ethics, politics, and economics

Disciplina

791.43/6278

Soggetti

Western films - History and criticism

National characteristics, American, in motion pictures

Politics in motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Red River and the right to rule -- Who cares who shot Liberty Valance? : the heroic and the prosaic in The man who shot Liberty Valance  -- Politics and self-knowledge in The searchers -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

In this pathbreaking book one of America's most distinguished philosophers brilliantly explores the status and authority of law and the nature of political allegiance through close readings of three classic Hollywood Westerns: Howard Hawks' Red River and John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and The Searchers.Robert Pippin treats these films as sophisticated mythic accounts of a key moment in American history: its "second founding," or the western expansion. His central question concerns how these films explore classical problems in political psychology, especially how the virtues of a commercial republic gained some hold on individuals at a time when the heroic and martial virtues were so important. Westerns, Pippin shows, raise central



questions about the difference between private violence and revenge and the state's claim to a legitimate monopoly on violence, and they show how these claims come to be experienced and accepted or rejected.Pippin's account of the best Hollywood Westerns brings this genre into the center of the tradition of political thought, and his readings raise questions about political psychology and the political passions that have been neglected in contemporary political thought in favor of a limited concern with the question of legitimacy.