Title: Hope and wish image in music technology
Authors: Rando, David
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, Springer International Publishing,
Year: 2017
Subjects: Music Technological innovations Social aspects.; Music Philosophy and aesthetics
Contents: Introduction : audible hope -- Wish images and wishful images : Benjamin and Bloch -- The music of wish images : filesharing and utopia -- The mixtape as wishtape : heterotopia, translation, and nostalgia -- The artist and technology : William Gaddis's Agapē Agape, or the world's smallest player piano playing itself just for you -- "The enemy has never ceased to be victorious" : Anne Frank and Neutral Milk Hotel -- Technology, everyday life, and hope -- Conclusion : the happy appearance and the wishful tendency in cultural criticism.