Dig : sound and music in hip culture / Phil Ford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ford, Phil, 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular music--History and criticism.

Popular music.

Music--Social aspects.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, UK ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'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.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Dig (An Introduction); 1. Koan (What Is Hip?); WHAT IS HIP?; THE SUZUKI RHYTHM BOYS; THE DEVIL'S STAIRCASE; THE BLACK SPOT; 2. Somewhere/Nowhere; PRECAMBRIAN; GAME IDEOLOGY; SMART GOES CRAZY; IRONY; MILES AND MONK; SOMEWHERE/NOWHERE; 3. Sound Become Holy (The Beats); SOUND BECOME HOLY; THE SADNESS OF IT ALL; DIGGING WHAT THEY DIG; ASTOUNDING AND PROPHETIC; STENCILED OFF THE REAL; 4. Hip Sensibility in an Age of Mass Counterculture; RIGHT ON, MR. HOROWITZ; THE SQUARE; ASYMMETRICAL CONSCIOUSNESS; ELITISM; MASS CULTURE CRITIQUE

THE DECLINE OF MIDCENTURY MODERNISM AND THE BIRTH OF POSTMODERNISMSOUND MUSEUM; 5. Mailer's Sound; "THE SOUND IS THE THING, MAN"; ABSTRACTION; WHITENESS; MAILER'S SOUND; ENANTIODROMIA; 6. "Let's say that we're new, every minute" (John Benson Brooks); OFF-MINOR; MUSIC OF THE ISMS; DJOLOGY; CIPHER; MAGICAL HERMENEUTICS; TECHNOLOGIES OF EXPERIENCE; PRACTICE; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index; 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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 26, 2013).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-933102-2

0-19-993992-6

OCLC:

852158441