Babbling corpse
Subtitle: vaporwave and the commodification of ghosts
By: Grafton Tanner
Publisher: Zero Books
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Winchester, UK; Washington, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9781782797593
Subjects: Capitalism and mass media; Social aspects; Analysis, appreciation; Popular culture; History and criticism; Ambient music; Music and the Internet; Popular music; Internet; Production and direction
Description: "The concept of vaporwave is a function of franken music. Taking samples of other music, endlessly repeating sounds, words and phrases either spoken or musical, and slapping them all together into an mp3 package, vaporwave can infuriate, bore or be completely ignored. It can have zero musical value, or appear as outright theft. It is a rebellion of sorts against the powerful commercial music establishment that dictates our tastes. To Grafton Tanner, it is the poster child of the decline and fall of western civilization. It is at very least yet another symptom"--David Wineberg, Amazon via NetGalley.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 82-83) and discography (page 84).
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Ghostly encounters; title: Spectral presence : vaporwave and the uncanny; title: Erasing the human : anthrodecentrism and co(s)mic horror; title: Lost futures and consumer dreams : Hauntology and the sounds of capital; title: Sick and tired : 9/11 and regressive culture in the twenty-first century.