Repeating ourselves : American minimal music as cultural practice /

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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 Ours...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Fink, Robert Wallace, 1961- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2005.
Subjects:
Minimal music > History and criticism.
Music > Social aspects.
Musique répétitive > Histoire et critique.
Musique > Aspect social.
MUSIC > Instruction & Study > Composition.
MUSIC > General.
Minimal music
Music > Social aspects
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The culture of eros : repetition as desire creation
  • Do it ('til you're satisfied) : repetitive musics and recombinant desires
  • "A colorful installment in the twentieth-century drama of consumer subjectivity" : minimalism and the phenomenology of consumer desire
  • The media sublime : minimalism, advertising, and television
  • The culture of Thanatos : repetition as mood regulation
  • "A pox on Manfredini" : the long-playing record, the baroque revival, and the birth of ambient music
  • "I did this exercise 100,000 times" : zen, minimalism, and the Suzuki method.

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