Author : Laura Glitsos
Release : 2019-09-14
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 227/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Somatechnics and Popular Music in Digital Contexts by : Laura Glitsos
Download or read book Somatechnics and Popular Music in Digital Contexts written by Laura Glitsos. This book was released on 2019-09-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a celebration and explication of the body in the world and the ways that our body situates our consciousness as a lived formation, one which is oriented by the experience of music listening. The book examines the relationship between bodies, technics, and music, using the theoretical tools of somatechnics. Somatechnics calls for a recognition of the body in the world as an artefact wrapped up, entangled and produced by the materialities of that world. It traverses discussions on materiality, live music, touchscreen media, the personal computer, and new modes of listening such as virtual reality technologies. Finally, the book looks at music itself as a kind of technology that generates new modes of bodily being.