Eye for Music

Popular Music and the Audiovisual Surreal
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-536737-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 512 g

Reihe: Oxford Music/Media Series

The music we hear is always inhabited by voices of previous performances. Because listening is now so often accompanied by moving images, this process is more complex than ever. Music videos, television and film music, interactive video games, and social media are now part of the contemporary listening experience. In An Eye for Music, John Richardson navigates key areas of current thought - from music theory to film theory to cultural theory - to explore
what it means that the experience of music is now cinematic, spatial, and visual as much as it is auditory. Richardson maps out the terrain of recent audiovisual production over a wide array of styles and practices, and sketches out a set of common structures that inform how we experience sound and vision.
Whether examining Philip Glass or The Gorillaz, Richard Linklater's Waking Life or Michel Gondry's Be Kind Rewind, Richardson's arguments are both fascinating and provocative.

Zielgruppe

Student and scholars interested in audiovisual research across several disciplines: musicology, media studies, film studies, popular music studies, and cultural studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Richardson, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikpsychologie, Musiksoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Medien & Gesellschaft, Medienwirkungsforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Film, Video, Foto
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Digitale Medien, Internet, Telekommunikation
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Rock & Pop, Blues, Soul

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Navigating the Neosurreal: background and premises
Chapter 3. Neosurrealist Tendencies in Recent Films
Chapter 4. Neosurrealist Metamusicals, Flow and Camp Aesthetics
Chapter 5. In Tandem with the Random: Loose Synchronisation and Remediation in Philip Glass's La Belle et la Bête and The Dark Side of Oz
Chapter 6. The Surrealism of the Virtual Band in the Digital Age: Gorillaz' "Clint Eastwood" and "Feel Good Inc."
Chapter 7. Back to the Garden? Performing the Disaffected Acoustic Imaginary in the Digital Age
Chapter 8. Concluding thoughts: All that is solid melts into air?
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Richardson, John
John Richardson is Professor of Musicology at the University of Turku in Finland. He is the author of Singing Archaeology: Philip Glass's Akhnaten (1999) and has published on popular music, music and visual media, contemporary avant-garde music, and Finnish music.

John Richardson is Professor of Musicology at the University of Turku in Finland. He is the author of Singing Archaeology: Philip Glass's Akhnaten (1999) and has published on popular music, music and visual media, contemporary avant-garde music, and Finnish music.