Dig
Subtitle: sound and music in hip culture
By: Phil Ford
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780199939916
Subjects: Popular music; Intellectual life; History and criticism; Influence; Beats (Persons); Civilization; Music; Counterculture; History
Description: "From the vantage of hipness, the dominant culture constitutes a system bent on excluding creativity, self-awareness, and self-expression. The hipster's project is thus to define himself against this system, to resist being stamped in its uniform square mold. Ford explores radio shows, films, novels, poems, essays, jokes, and political manifestos, but argues that music more than any other form of expression has shaped the alienated hipster's identity."--Book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-287) and index.
Table of contents: title: Dig (an introduction); title: Koan (what is hip?). What is hip? ; The Suzuki rhythm boys ; The devil's staircase ; The black spot; title: Somewhere/nowhere. Precambrian ; Game ideology ; Smart goes crazy ; Irony ; Miles and Monk ; Somewhere/nowhere; title: Sound become holy (the Beats). Sound become holy ; The sadness of it all ; Digging what they dig ; Astounding and prophetic ; Stenciled off the real; title: Hip sensibility in an age of mass counterculture. Right on, Mr. Horowitz ; The square ; Asymmetrical consciousness ; Elitism ; Mass culture critique; title: The decline of midcentury modernism and the birth of postmodernism ; Sound museum; title: Mailer's sound. "The sound is the thing, man" ; Abstraction ; Whiteness ; Mailer's sound ; Enantiodromia; title: "Let's say that we're new, every minute" (John Benson Brooks). Off-minor ; Music of the isms ; Djology ; Cipher ; Magical hermeneutics ; Technologies of experience ; Practice.