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In Earworm and Event Eldritch Priest questions the nature of the imagination in contemporary culture through 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. Through a series of meditations on music, animal mentality, abstraction, and metaphor, Priest uses the earworm and the states of daydreaming, mind-wandering, and delusion it can produce to outline how music is something that is felt as thought rather than listened to. Priest presents Earworm and Event as a tête-bêche-two books bound together with each end meeting in the middle. Where Earworm theorizes the entanglement of thought and feeling, Event performs it. Throughout, Priest conceptualizes the earworm as an event that offers insight into not only the way human brains process musical experiences, but how abstractions and the imagination play key roles in the composition and expression of our contemporary social environments and more-than-human milieus. Unconventional and ambitious, Earworm and Event offers new ways to interrogate the convergence of thought, sound, and affect.
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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
Info autore
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.
Riassunto
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.
