Hope and Wish Image in Music Technology

AvDavid P. Rando

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

This book proposes that new music technologies attract unconscious desires for socialism and collectivity, enabling millions of people living under capitalism to dream of repressed social alternatives.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-11-28
Mått:148 x 210 x 16 mm
Vikt:388 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:191
Upplaga:16001
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319340142

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Musikböcker inom Kultur
Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

David P. Rando is Associate Professor of English at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, USA. He is the author of Modernist Fiction and News: Representing Experience in the Early Twentieth Century, as well as articles on modernist and contemporary fiction.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface.- Introduction: Audible Hope.- Chapter 1: Wish Images and Wishful Images in Benjamin and Bloch.- Chapter 2: The Music of Wish Images: Filesharing and Utopia.- Chapter 3: The Mixtape as Wishtape: Heterotopia, Translation, and Nostalgia.- Chapter 4: The Artist and Technology: William Gaddis’s Agapē Agape, or the World’s Smallest Player Piano Playing Itself Just for You.- Chapter 5: ‘The Enemy Has Never Ceased to Be Victorious’: Anne Frank and Neutral Milk Hotel.- Chapter 6: Technology, Everyday Life, and Hope.- Conclusion: The Happy Appearance and the Wishful Tendency in Cultural Criticism.