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Anatomy of Thought-Fiction: CHS report, April 2214
Joanna Demers
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Description for Anatomy of Thought-Fiction: CHS report, April 2214
Paperback. Why do people choose to believe things they know are untrue? Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
In the year 2214, the Center for Humanistic Study has discovered an unpublished manuscript by Joanna Demers, a musicologist who lived some two centuries before. Her writing interrogates the music of artists ranging from David Bowie and Scott Walker to Kanye West and The KLF. Questioning how people of the early twenty-first century could have believed that music was alive, and that music was simultaneously on the brink of extinction, light is shed on why the United States subsequently chose to eliminate the humanities from universities, and to embrace fascism...
In the year 2214, the Center for Humanistic Study has discovered an unpublished manuscript by Joanna Demers, a musicologist who lived some two centuries before. Her writing interrogates the music of artists ranging from David Bowie and Scott Walker to Kanye West and The KLF. Questioning how people of the early twenty-first century could have believed that music was alive, and that music was simultaneously on the brink of extinction, light is shed on why the United States subsequently chose to eliminate the humanities from universities, and to embrace fascism...
Product Details
Publisher
John Hunt Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
Ropley, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785353819
SKU
V9781785353819
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About Joanna Demers
Joanna Demers is associate professor of Musicology at the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music, where she specializes in post1945 popular and art music.
Reviews for Anatomy of Thought-Fiction: CHS report, April 2214
Focused on music, but with implications that extend to just about everything, Anatomy of Thought-Fiction explores the role of false ideas in our intellectual and emotional life. Joanna Demers' elegant monograph (or should that be polygraph?) softly shatters myths and tenderly takes apart received wisdom. Yet this cluster-bomb of a book also leaves the reader convinced that illusions aren't just ... Read more