Dig : sound and music in hip culture /
Ford, Phil, 1969-
Dig : sound and music in hip culture / Phil Ford. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (ix, 306 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Dig (an introduction) -- Koan (what is hip?) -- What is hip? -- The Suzuki rhythm boys -- The devil's staircase -- The black spot -- Somewhere/nowhere -- Precambrian -- Game ideology -- Smart goes crazy -- Irony -- Miles and Monk -- Somewhere/nowhere -- Sound become holy (the Beats) -- Sound become holy -- The sadness of it all -- Digging what they dig -- Astounding and prophetic -- Stenciled off the real -- Hip sensibility in an age of mass counterculture -- Right on, Mr. Horowitz -- The square -- Asymmetrical consciousness -- Elitism -- Mass culture critique -- The decline of midcentury modernism and the birth of postmodernism -- Sound museum -- Mailer's sound -- "The sound is the thing, man" -- Abstraction -- Whiteness -- Mailer's sound -- Enantiodromia -- "Let's say that we're new, every minute" (John Benson Brooks) -- Off-minor -- Music of the isms -- Djology -- Cipher -- Magical hermeneutics -- Technologies of experience -- Practice.
'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.
9780199939923 (electronic bk.) 0199939926 (electronic bk.) 9780199331024 (electronic bk.) 0199331022 (electronic bk.) 9780199354467 (electronic bk.) 0199354464 (electronic bk.)
D4E3395A-D26E-430E-BB98-CD0BB2DD32E4 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
Popular music--History and criticism.
Music--Social aspects.
Musique populaire--Histoire et critique.
Musique--Aspect social.
MUSIC--Genres & Styles--Pop Vocal.
Music--Social aspects.
Popular music.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ML3470 / .F68 2013eb
781.64
Dig : sound and music in hip culture / Phil Ford. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (ix, 306 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Dig (an introduction) -- Koan (what is hip?) -- What is hip? -- The Suzuki rhythm boys -- The devil's staircase -- The black spot -- Somewhere/nowhere -- Precambrian -- Game ideology -- Smart goes crazy -- Irony -- Miles and Monk -- Somewhere/nowhere -- Sound become holy (the Beats) -- Sound become holy -- The sadness of it all -- Digging what they dig -- Astounding and prophetic -- Stenciled off the real -- Hip sensibility in an age of mass counterculture -- Right on, Mr. Horowitz -- The square -- Asymmetrical consciousness -- Elitism -- Mass culture critique -- The decline of midcentury modernism and the birth of postmodernism -- Sound museum -- Mailer's sound -- "The sound is the thing, man" -- Abstraction -- Whiteness -- Mailer's sound -- Enantiodromia -- "Let's say that we're new, every minute" (John Benson Brooks) -- Off-minor -- Music of the isms -- Djology -- Cipher -- Magical hermeneutics -- Technologies of experience -- Practice.
'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.
9780199939923 (electronic bk.) 0199939926 (electronic bk.) 9780199331024 (electronic bk.) 0199331022 (electronic bk.) 9780199354467 (electronic bk.) 0199354464 (electronic bk.)
D4E3395A-D26E-430E-BB98-CD0BB2DD32E4 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
Popular music--History and criticism.
Music--Social aspects.
Musique populaire--Histoire et critique.
Musique--Aspect social.
MUSIC--Genres & Styles--Pop Vocal.
Music--Social aspects.
Popular music.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ML3470 / .F68 2013eb
781.64