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An Eye for Music. Popular Music and the Audiovisual Surreal.
John Richardson
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Paperback. In An Eye for Music, John Richardson navigates key areas of current thought - from music theory to film theory to cultural theory - to explore what it means that the experience of music is now cinematic, spatial, and visual as much as it is auditory. Series: Oxford Music/Media Series. Num Pages: 336 pages, 22 illustrations and 3 tables. BIC Classification: AVGP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 450.
The music we hear is always inhabited by voices of previous performances. Because listening is now so often accompanied by moving images, this process is more complex than ever. Music videos, television and film music, interactive video games, and social media are now part of the contemporary listening experience. In An Eye for Music, John Richardson navigates key areas of current thought - from music theory to film theory to cultural theory - to explore what it means that the experience of music is now cinematic, spatial, and visual as much as it is auditory. Richardson maps out the terrain ... Read more
The music we hear is always inhabited by voices of previous performances. Because listening is now so often accompanied by moving images, this process is more complex than ever. Music videos, television and film music, interactive video games, and social media are now part of the contemporary listening experience. In An Eye for Music, John Richardson navigates key areas of current thought - from music theory to film theory to cultural theory - to explore what it means that the experience of music is now cinematic, spatial, and visual as much as it is auditory. Richardson maps out the terrain ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Series
Oxford Music/Media Series
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195367379
SKU
V9780195367379
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About John Richardson
John Richardson is Professor of Musicology at the University of Turku in Finland. He is the author of Singing Archaeology: Philip Glass's Akhnaten (1999) and has published on popular music, music and visual media, contemporary avant-garde music, and Finnish music.
Reviews for An Eye for Music. Popular Music and the Audiovisual Surreal.
This book unveils the 'audiovisual surreal,' a key emerging tendency in digital audiovisual culture. In zeroing in on his subject in ways both exacting and generous, John Richardson invites the reader to participate in the heady pleasures of theorizing with a bustling crowd that includes Sigmund Freud and Simon Frith, Michel Gondry and Tsai Ming-Liang, Susan Sontag and Georges Bataille, ... Read more