Jimi Hendrix and Philosophy : Experience Required.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ammon, Theodore G.

Series:

Popular Culture and Philosophy Series

Popular culture and philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music and philosophy.

Rock music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Open Court, 2017.

Summary:

In his brief career Jimi Hendrix transformed rock music, established himself as the greatest guitarist of all time, and left a rich legacy of original songs and dazzling recordings. In Jimi Hendrix and Philosophy , philosophers come to terms with the experience and the phenomenon of Hendrix, uncovering some surprising implications of Hendrix's life and work. Much of this book is concerned with the restless polarities and dualities that reveal themselves through Hendrix. His compositions display a preoccupation with the tragic nature of life, moving between the polarities of Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Idea and and Platonic philosophy. Jimi's "guitar-being" has surprising implications for the philosophical relation between mind and body. There is in Hendrix a duality between innovation and tradition-innovation in psychedelic sonic adventures and tradition in the form of the blues. Hendrix exemplifies the interaction of technology and art, as seen in his use of feedback, varieties of noise, and backwards reel-to-reel playing. How much of the Hendrix phenomenon can be explained by the technological situation and how much by his own unique genius? Everyone knows about Hendrix's use of feedback in the narrow sense, but feedback can also be viewed as a general phenomenon that arises in complex dynamical systems and emerges at the border of chaos and order. Although critics associate Hendrix's lifestyle and early death with self-destructive patterns of the Sixties, his actual thoughts as revealed in his songs and writings show a more positive and constructive concern with authentic freedom. What did Hendrix mean when he spoke of "the realities" of conflict conveyed in "Machine Gun"? What is a "Voodoo Chile"? When does noise become music? These and other questions are addressed in Jimi Hendrix and Philosophy . Hendrix's undying popularity following his death in 1970 has led to the release over the years of a large body of material which Hendrix would never have chosen to make public, raising serious questions about what we owe to the dead and how we view the construction of the artist's public persona.

Contents:

If 6 was 9. I stand up next to a mountain / Hans Utter ; Zen and the art of guitar burning / Ronald S. Green ; Mermen and dismemberment / Jerry Piven ; Hendrix - freedom and love / Theodore G. Ammon

I know I gotta die when it's time for me to die. Jimi, Janis, and Jim / Randall E. Auxier ; Quicker than the wink of an eye / Daryl Hale ; A life along the watchtower / Christopher Ketcham

Flotation is groovy, even a jellyfish will tell you that. Facing up to the realities / Jassen Callender ; Are you experienced? / Charles Taliaferro ; Hendrix out of the cave / Francis Métivier

Music sweet music. Vibrations and echoes long ago / Dennis Loughrey ; The broken pieces of yesterday's life / Robert G. Boatright and Molly Brigid Flynn ; Did Jimi play rock? / Sam Bruton ; Hendrix from the bottom up / Eric Griffin ; You can't use my name / Richard Bilsker

What any of it is worth. Artistic expression in the land of the free / David MacGregor Johnston ; The cry of love / Hans Utter ; Musical order from sonic chaos / David Morgan ; Elemental Jimi / Scott Calef

Historical note / John-the-Boss.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780812699753

0812699750