Dig : sound and music in hip culture / Phil Ford.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

'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.

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.

eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide