An eye for music : popular music and the audiovisual surreal / John Richardson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richardson, John, 1964- author.

Series:

Oxford music/media series.

The Oxford music/media series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music.

Motion picture music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Motion picture music.

Surrealism and music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 323 p.) : ill.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Here, Richardson navigates key areas of current thought - from music theory to film theory to cultural theory - to explore what it means that experience of music is now cinematic, spatial, and ultimately visual as much as it is auditory.

Contents:

Introduction

Navigating the neosurreal : background and premises

Neosurrealist tendencies in recent films

Neosurrealist metamusicals, flow and camp aesthetics

In tandem with the random : loose synchronisation and remediation in Philip Glass's

La Belle et la Bête and The dark side of Oz

The surrealism of the virtual band in the digital age : Gorillaz' "Clint Eastwood" and "Feel good inc."

Back to the garden? Performing the disaffected acoustic imaginary in the digital age

Concluding thoughts : all that is solid melts into air?

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-310) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-971020-1

0-19-536737-5