Repeating Ourselves (eBook)

American Minimal Music as Cultural Practice

Robert Fink (Autor)

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2005
296 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-93894-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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 1970s 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 "e;easy listening"e;; and appraises its meditative kinship to the spiritual path of musical mastery offered by Japan's Suzuki Method of Talent Education.

Inhalt

Preface
Introduction. The Culture of Repetition

PART ONE: The Culture of Eros: Repetition as Desire Creation
1. Do It ('til You’re Satisfied): Repetitive Musics and Recombinant Desires
2. "A Colorful Installment in the Twentieth-Century Drama of Consumer Subjectivity": Minimalism and the Phenomenology of Consumer Desire
3. The Media Sublime: Minimalism, Advertising, and Television

PART TWO: The Culture of Thanatos: Repetition as Mood Regulation
4. "A Pox on Manfredini": The Long-Playing Record, the Baroque Revival, and the Birth of Ambient Music
5. "I Did This Exercise 100,000 Times": Zen, Minimalism, and the Suzuki Method

Notes
List of Illustrations
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.9.2005
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Advertising Campaigns • America • American Music • consumer society • cultural practices • Disco • Easy Listening • hi fi technology • mass consumerism • Mass media • Minimalism • minimalist aesthetics • Minimal music • musical minimalism • Music and Culture • music historians • Musicians • musicology • music studies • Nonfiction • Philip Glass • popular music studies • Postwar America • repetitive music • revisionist account • Steve Reich • Terry Riley • United States
• ISBN-10: 0-520-93894-1 / 0520938941
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-93894-6 / 9780520938946