TY - BOOK AU - Ford,Phil TI - Dig: sound and music in hip culture SN - 9780199939923 AV - ML3470 .F68 2013eb U1 - 781.64 23 PY - 2013/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Popular music KW - History and criticism KW - Music KW - Social aspects KW - Musique populaire KW - Histoire et critique KW - Musique KW - Aspect social KW - MUSIC KW - Genres & Styles KW - Pop Vocal KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - 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 N2 - '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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=602892 ER -