Repeating Ourselves

American Minimal Music as Cultural Practice

Robert Fink (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

296 Seiten

2005
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-24550-1 (ISBN)

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

Robert Fink is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.9.2005
Zusatzinfo	9 b-w photographs, 18 music examples
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-520-24550-4 / 0520245504
ISBN-13	978-0-520-24550-1 / 9780520245501
Zustand	Neuware