Dialectic of Pop
A philosophical exploration of pop music that reveals a rich, self-reflexive art form with unsuspected depths.In the first major philosophical treatise on the subject, Agnès Gayraud explores all the paradoxes of pop—its inauthentic authenticity, its mass production of emotion and personal resonance, its repetitive novelty, its precision engineering of seduction—and calls for pop (in its broadest sense, encompassing all genres of popular recorded music) to be recognized as a modern, technologically mediated art form to rank alongside cinema and photography.In a thoroughgoing engagement with Adorno's fierce critique of standardized light popula…
Mehr
CHF 36.10
Preise inkl. MwSt. und Versandkosten (Portofrei ab CHF 40.00)
Versandkostenfrei
Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Mackay, Robin (Übers.) / Miller, Daniel (Übers.) / Power, Nina (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-913029-60-9
- EAN: 9781913029609
- Produktnummer: 34355623
- Verlag: MIT Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 456 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 820 KB
- Reihenbandnummer: 8
Über den Autor
Agnès Gayraud is a French musician and philosopher born in 1979. She teaches theory at the Villa Arson (National Art School) in Nice. She has gained critical acclaim for her musical practice (as La Féline) and is a regular writer for the daily paper Libération.Robin Mackay is a philosopher, Director of the UK arts organization Urbanomic, and Associate Researcher at Goldsmiths University of London.
1 weiteres Werk von Agnes Gayraud:
Bewertungen
Anmelden