Somatechnics And Popular Music In Digital Contexts

Author : Laura Glitsos
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030181227
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Somatechnics and Popular Music in Digital Contexts written by Laura Glitsos and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-14 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a celebration and explication of the body in the world and the ways that our body situates our consciousness as a lived formation, one which is oriented by the experience of music listening. The book examines the relationship between bodies, technics, and music, using the theoretical tools of somatechnics. Somatechnics calls for a recognition of the body in the world as an artefact wrapped up, entangled and produced by the materialities of that world. It traverses discussions on materiality, live music, touchscreen media, the personal computer, and new modes of listening such as virtual reality technologies. Finally, the book looks at music itself as a kind of technology that generates new modes of bodily being.

Author : Jon Stratton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501339885
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Anthology of Australian Albums written by Jon Stratton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Anthology of Australian Albums offers an overview of Australian popular music through the lens of significant, yet sometimes overlooked, Australian albums. Chapters explore the unique qualities of each album within a broader history of Australian popular music. Artists covered range from the older and non-mainstream yet influential, such as the Missing Links, Wendy Saddington and the Coloured Balls, to those who have achieved very recent success (Courtney Barnett, Dami Im and Flume) and whose work contributes to international pop music (Sia), to the more exploratory or experimental (Curse ov Dialect and A.B. Original). Collectively the albums and artists covered contribute to a view of Australian popular music through the non-canonical, emphasizing albums by women, non-white artists and Indigenous artists, and expanding the focus to include genres outside of rock including hip hop, black metal and country.

Author : Jason Whittaker
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030924629
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bodies, Noise and Power in Industrial Music written by Jason Whittaker and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-03-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection delves into the industrial music genre, exploring the importance of music in (sub)cultural identity formation, and the impact of technology on the production of music. With its roots as early as the 1970s, industrial music emerged as a harsh, transgressive, and radically charged genre. The soundscape of the industrial is intense and powerful, adorned with taboo images, and thematically concerned with authority and control. Elemental to the genre is critical engagement with configurations of the body and related power. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this collection analyses the treatment of subjects like the Body (animal, human, machine), Noise (rhythmic, harsh) and Power (authority, institutions, law) in a variety of industrial music’s elements. Throughout the collection, these three subjects are interrogated by examining lyrics, aesthetics, music videos, song writing, performance and audience reception. The chapters have been carefully selected to produce a diverse and intersectional perspective, including work on Black industrial musicians and Arabic and North African women’s collaborations. Rather than providing historical context, the contributors interpret the finer elements of the aesthetics and discourses around physical bodies and power as expressed in the genre, expanding the ‘industrial’ boundary and broadening the focus beyond white European industrial music.

Author : Mark Deuze
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262374617
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life in Media written by Mark Deuze and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-07-25 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new way to teach media studies that centers students’ lived experiences and diverse perspectives from around the world. From the intimate to the mundane, most aspects of our lives—how we learn, love, work, and play—take place in media. Taking an expansive, global perspective, this introductory textbook covers what it means to live in, rather than with, media. Mark Deuze focuses on the lived experience—how people who use smartphones, the internet, and television sets make sense of their digital environment—to investigate the broader role of media in society and everyday life. Life in Media uses relatable examples and case studies from around the world to illustrate the foundational theories, concepts, and methods of media studies. The book is structured around six core themes: how media inform and inspire our daily activities; how we live our lives in the public eye; how we make distinctions between real and fake; how we seek and express love; how we use media to effect change; how we create media and shared narratives; and how we seek to create well-being within media. By deliberately including diverse voices and radically embracing the everyday and mundane aspects of media life, this book innovates ways to teach and talk about media. Highlights diverse international voices, images, and cases Uses accessible examples from everyday life to contextualize theory Offers a comprehensive, student-centered introduction to media studies Extensively annotated bibliography offers dynamic sources for further study, including readings and documentary films

Author : Catherine Hoad
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787691675
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Australian Metal Music written by Catherine Hoad and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-28 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores heavy metal music in Australia, engaging with the nuanced ways in which metal music, scenes and cultures are experienced. Leading metal scholars and active scene members examine the diversity of practices, histories and identities within Australian metal music, and question what it means to be Australian in the context of metal.

Author : Raphaël Nowak
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781349556991
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Consuming Music in the Digital Age written by Raphaël Nowak and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the issue of music consumption in the digital era of technologies. It explores how individuals use music in the context of their everyday lives and how, in return, music acquires certain roles within everyday contexts and more broadly in their life narratives.

Author : Samantha Murray
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317052757
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Somatechnics written by Samantha Murray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Somatechnics highlights the reciprocal bond between the sôma and the techné of 'the body' and the techniques in which bodies are formed and transformed as crafted responses to the world around us. Structured around the themes of the governance of social bodies, the gendering of sexed bodies and the techniques associated with the formation of the self, Somatechnics presents a groundbreaking study of body modification. Its contributions to the work of Spinoza, Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, Deluze and Guattari make it a must read for scholars of sociology, cultural and queer studies and philosophy.

Author : Kate Orton-Johnson
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
ISBN 13 : 1526481898
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digital Culture and Society written by Kate Orton-Johnson and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 2024-02-23 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a critical introduction to the ways in which digital technologies have enabled new types of interactions, experiences and collaborations across a range of platforms and media, profoundly shaping our socio-cultural landscapes. These discussions are grounded in classical sociological concepts; community, the self, gender, consumption, power and exclusion and inequality, to demonstrate the continuities that exist between sociological studies of ‘real’ world phenomena and their digital counterparts. Examining the various debates around methods in digital sociology in recent years, this book provides an accessible and engaging guide to using methodologies to study digital technology. From the moment we wake up until we go to bed, many of us constantly use digital technologies. Our mobile phones have become our maps, banks, newspapers and entertainment consoles. What′s more, they allow us to be constantly connected with the people in our lives. This book will equip you to analyse digital media in your own work. The book offers a broad guide to the various areas of our lives that are impacted by digital technology, from the virtual communities that we form on social media to the impact that digital technology has on our identity through a ′sociology of selfies′. With chapters on leisure, work, privacy and methods, this is an essential introduction for students in the areas of sociology, digital media, and cultural studies. Learning features include: - Annotated further reading in every chapter - Case studies that illustrate theory - Learning objectives and questions throughout - Historical and theoretical context in every chapter

Author : Aren Z. Aizura
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478002646
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mobile Subjects written by Aren Z. Aizura and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-23 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first famous transgender person in the United States, Christine Jorgensen, traveled to Denmark for gender reassignment surgery in 1952. Jorgensen became famous during the ascent of postwar dreams about the possibilities for technology to transform humanity and the world. In Mobile Subjects Aren Z. Aizura examines transgender narratives within global health and tourism economies from 1952 to the present. Drawing on an archive of trans memoirs and documentaries as well as ethnographic fieldwork with trans people obtaining gender reassignment surgery in Thailand, Aizura maps the uneven use of medical protocols to show how national and regional health care systems and labor economies contribute to and limit transnational mobility. Aizura positions transgender travel as a form of biomedical tourism, examining how understandings of race, gender, and aesthetics shape global cosmetic surgery cultures and how economic and racially stratified marketing and care work create the ideal transgender subject as an implicitly white, global citizen. In so doing, he shows how understandings of travel and mobility depend on the historical architectures of colonialism and contemporary patterns of global consumption and labor.

Author : S. Slabodsky
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137345837
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decolonial Judaism written by S. Slabodsky and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-02 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decolonial Judaism: Triumphal Failures of Barbaric Thinking explores the relationship among geopolitics, religion, and social theory. It argues that during the postcolonial and post-Holocaust era, Jewish thinkers in different parts of the world were influenced by Global South thought and mobilized this rich set of intellectual resources to confront the assimilation of normative Judaism by various incipient neo-colonial powers. By tracing the historical and conceptual lineage of this overlooked conversation, this book explores not only its epistemological opportunities, but also the internal contradictions that led to its ultimate unraveling, especially in the post-9/11 world.