Dialectic of Pop
- Paperback
456 pages
- Release Date
4 February 2020
Summary
A philosophical exploration of pop music that reveals a rich, self-reflexive art form with unsuspected depths.In the first major philosophical treatise on the subject, Agn s Gayraud explores all the paradoxes of pop-its inauthentic authenticity, its mass production of emotion and personal resonance, its repetitive novelty, its precision engineering of seduction-and calls for pop (in its broadest sense, encompassing all genres of popular recorded music) to be recognized as a modern, technologi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781913029555 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1913029557 |
| Author: | Agnès Gayraud, Robin Mackay, Daniel Miller, Nina Power |
| Publisher: | Urbanomic Media Ltd |
| Imprint: | Urbanomic Media Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 456 |
| Release Date: | 4 February 2020 |
| Weight: | 554g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 146mm |
| Series: | Urbanomic / Mono |
About The Author
Agnès Gayraud
Agn s Gayraud is a French musician and philosopher born in 1979. She teaches theory at the Villa Arson (National Art School) in Nice. She has gained critical acclaim for her musical practice (as La Feline) and is a regular writer for the daily paper Liberation.Robin Mackay is a philosopher, Director of the UK arts organization Urbanomic, and Associate Researcher at Goldsmiths University of London.
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