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1 online resource |
| 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. |
| Summary |
This book proposes that new music technologies attract unconscious desires for socialism and collectivity, enabling millions of people living under capitalism to dream of repressed social alternatives. Grounded in the philosophical writings of Ernst Bloch and Walter Benjamin, the book examines file sharing technologies, streaming services, and media players, as well as their historical antecedents, such as the player piano, cassette tape, radio and compact disc, alongside interpretations of fiction, memoir, and albums. Through the concept of wish images--the unconscious hopes and desires for social alternatives that gather around new technologies--the book identifies the repressed pre- and post-capitalist urges that attend our music technologies. While these desires typically remain unconscious and tend to pass away not only unmet but also unrecognized, Hope and Wish Image in Music Technology attempts to bring wishes for social alternatives to the surface at an auspicious moment of technological transition. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Music -- Technological innovations -- Social aspects.
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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Media studies. |
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Philosophy. |
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Literary studies: general. |
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Music. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General. |
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Rando, David P. Hope and wish image in music technology. [Place of publication not identified] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016 331934014X 9783319340142 (OCoLC)946461683 |
| ISBN |
9783319340159 (electronic bk.) |
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3319340158 (electronic bk.) |
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331934014X |
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9783319340142 |
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