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Repeating ourselves : American minimal music as cultural practice / Robert Fink.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fink, Robert.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Minimal music--History and criticism.
- Minimal music.
- Music--Social aspects.
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9786612358173
- 9781282358171
- 1282358170
- 9780520938946
- 0520938941
- 9781423727583
- 1423727584
- 9781598757859
- 1598757857
- OCLC:
- 475950407
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