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Hope and wish image in music technology / David P. Rando.
Author
Rando, David
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Language
English
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Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
©2017
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xvi, 191 pages ; 22 cm
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Mendel Music Library - Stacks
ML74 .R36 2017
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Music
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Technological innovations
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Social aspects
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Philosophy and aesthetics
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Summary note
This book proposes that new music technologies attract unconscious desires for socialism and collectivity, enabling millions of people living under capitalism to dream of repressed social alternatives. Grounded in the philosophical writings of Ernst Bloch and Walter Benjamin, the book examines file sharing technologies, streaming services, and media players, as well as their historical antecedents, such as the player piano, cassette tape, radio and compact disc, alongside interpretations of fiction, memoir, and albums. Through the concept of wish images-the unconscious hopes and desires for social alternatives that gather around new technologies-the book identifies the repressed pre- and post-capitalist urges that attend our music technologies. While these desires typically remain unconscious and tend to pass away not only unmet but also unrecognized, Hope and Wish Image in Music Technology attempts to bring wishes for social alternatives to the surface at an auspicious moment of technological transition. .
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-177) and index.
Contents
Introduction : audible hope
Wish images and wishful images : Benjamin and Bloch
The music of wish images : filesharing and utopia
The mixtape as wishtape : heterotopia, translation, and nostalgia
The artist and technology : William Gaddis's Agapē Agape, or the world's smallest player piano playing itself just for you
"The enemy has never ceased to be victorious" : Anne Frank and Neutral Milk Hotel
Technology, everyday life, and hope
Conclusion : the happy appearance and the wishful tendency in cultural criticism.
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ISBN
9783319340142 ((hardcover))
331934014X ((hardcover))
OCLC
967146640
International Article Number
9783319340142
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