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Ford, Phil - Dig: Sound and Music in Hip Culture.

Oxford & New York : Oxford University Press, 2013. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 336 pp.- In Dig, Phil Ford argues that while hipsters have always used clothing, hairstyle, gesture, and slang to mark their distance from consensus culture, music has consistently been the primary means of resistance, the royal road to hip. Hipness suggests a particular kind of alienation from society--alienation due not to any specific political wrong but to something more radical, a clash of perception and consciousness. 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, squarish 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. Indeed, for many avant-garde subcultures music is their raison d'être. Hip intellectuals conceived of sound itself as a way of challenging meaning--that which is cognitive and abstract, timeless and placeless--with experience--that which is embodied, concrete and anchored in place and time. Through Charlie Parker's Ornithology, Ken Nordine's Sound Museum, Bob Dylan's Ballad of a Thin Man, and a range of other illuminating examples, Ford shows why and how music came to be at the center of hipness. English text. Condition : as new. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. ISBN 9780199939916.
EUR 12.50 [Appr.: US$ 14.69 | £UK 11 | JP¥ 2158] Book number #233387

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