Repeating ourselves
Subtitle: American minimal music as cultural practice
By: Robert Fink.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: Minimal music -- History and criticism; Music -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The culture of eros : repetition as desire creation; title: Do it ('til you're satisfied) : repetitive musics and recombinant desires; title: "A colorful installment in the twentieth-century drama of consumer subjectivity" : minimalism and the phenomenology of consumer desire; title: The media sublime : minimalism, advertising, and television; title: The culture of Thanatos : repetition as mood regulation; title: "A pox on Manfredini" : the long-playing record, the baroque revival, and the birth of ambient music; title: "I did this exercise 100,000 times" : zen, minimalism, and the Suzuki method.