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

• Autore: Fink Robert
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 p.)
• Disciplina: 781.3
• Soggetto topico: Minimal music - History and criticism; Music - Social aspects
• Soggetto non controllato: advertising campaigns; america; american music; consumer society; cultural practices; disco; easy listening; hi fi technology; mass consumerism; mass media; minimal music; minimalism; minimalist aesthetics; music and culture; music historians; music studies; musical minimalism; musicians; musicology; nonfiction; philip glass; popular music studies; postwar america; repetitive music; revisionist account; steve reich; terry riley; united states
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Repeating ourselves
• ISBN: 1-282-35817-0; 0-520-93894-1; 1-4237-2758-4; 9786612358173; 1-59875-785-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819772303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II