Priest Earworm and Event

Music, Daydreams, and Other Imaginary Refrains
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2259-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten

Reihe: Thought in the Act

Eldritch Priest questions the nature of sound, music, thought, and affect by analyzing the phenomenon of the earworm: those reveries that hijack our attention, the shivers that run down our spines, and the songs that stick in our heads.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Priest, Eldritch

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Geschichte der Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction. Earworm
1. Felt as Thought
2. Earworms, Daydreams, and the Fate of Useless Thinking
3. The Worm Refrain (or, Does Nature Get Earworms?)
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Acknowledgments
Introduction. Event
1. What It's Like to Think Like What It's Like to Think Like What It's Like
2. Beating a Dead Beetle
3. Impactical Enthusiasm
4. Ex Post Facto ex Ante (or, It's All in the Setup.?
5. Do Earworms Have Daydreams?
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Eldritch Priest is Assistant Professor in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University, author of Boring Formless Nonsense: Experimental Music and the Aesthetics of Failure, and coauthor of Ludic Dreaming: How to Listen Away from Contemporary Technoculture.