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Zusatztext [Ford's] conclusions on the Beats, popular music in American culture and the ever-continuing onrush of (blindfold consuming) square culture, nemesis of those who âdigâ things, are unquestionably worth reading. Informationen zum Autor Phil Ford is Assistant Professor of Music at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. His work deals with American popular music in the cold war, performance and auditory culture studies, and the intellectual history of counterculture. He was founder and co-author of the Dial 'M' for Musicology weblog. Klappentext Dig argues that in hip culture it is sound itself, and the faculty of hearing, that is the privileged part of the sensory experience. Through a string of lucid and illuminating examples, author Phil Ford shows why and how music became a central facet of hipness and the counterculture. Zusammenfassung Dig argues that in hip culture it is sound itself, and the faculty of hearing, that is the privileged part of the sensory experience. Through a string of lucid and illuminating examples, author Phil Ford shows why and how music became a central facet of hipness and the counterculture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents Introduction: Dig Chapter 1: Koan (What Is Hip?) 1. What is Hip? 2. The Suzuki Rhythm Boys 3. The Devil's Staircase 4. The Black Spot Chapter 2: Somewhere/Nowhere 1. Precambrian 2. Game Ideology 3. 1948: Smart Goes Crazy 4. Miles and Monk 5. Somewhere/Nowhere Chapter 3: Sound Become Holy (The Beats) 1. Sound Become Holy 2. The Sadness of It All 3. Digging What They Dig 4. Astounding and Prophetic 5. Stenciled off the Real Chapter 4: Hip Sensibility in an Age of Mass Counterculture 1. Right On, Mr. Horowitz 2. The Square 3. Asymmetrical Consciousness 4. Elitism 5. Mass Culture Critique 6. The Decline of Midcentury Modernism and the Birth of Postmodernism 7. Sound Museum Chapter 5: Mailer's Sound 1. The Sound is the Thing, Man 2. Abstraction 3. Whiteness 4. Mailer's Sound 5. Enantiodromia Chapter 6: "Let's Say That We're New, Every Minute" (John Benson Brooks) 1. Off-Minor 2. Music of the Isms 3. DJology 4. Cipher 5. Magical Hermeneutics 6. Technologies of Experience 7. Practice ...
