Repeating ourselves

Fink, Robert.

Repeating ourselves American minimal music as cultural practice / [electronic resource] : Robert Fink. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005. - xvi, 280 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The culture of eros : repetition as desire creation -- Do it ('til you're satisfied) : repetitive musics and recombinant desires -- "A colorful installment in the twentieth-century drama of consumer subjectivity" : minimalism and the phenomenology of consumer desire -- The media sublime : minimalism, advertising, and television -- The culture of Thanatos : repetition as mood regulation -- "A pox on Manfredini" : the long-playing record, the baroque revival, and the birth of ambient music -- "I did this exercise 100,000 times" : zen, minimalism, and the Suzuki method.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
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Minimal music--History and criticism.
Music--Social aspects.


Electronic books.

ML197 / .F54 2005eb

781.3