Overview
- Synthesizes the emerging practice and field of somatechnics with popular music studies
- Presents the first approach of its kind to popular music consumption and listening practices through the body-emotion perspective
- Investigates the complex inter-relationships between technologies and music, and how these impact the listening experience as mediated by the body-system
Part of the book series: Pop Music, Culture and Identity (PMCI)
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr Laura Glitsos is a Senior Adjunct Research Fellow in the School of Arts and Humanities at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia. In addition to her expertise in the media and music industries, she has worked as a professional vocalist for which she was honoured with two Western Australian Music Awards. Dr Glitsos has published peer-review research in media studies, cultural studies, and popular music studies and lectures across the Humanities. Somatechnics and Popular Music in Digital Contexts is her first sole-authored book.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Somatechnics and Popular Music in Digital Contexts
Authors: Laura Glitsos
Series Title: Pop Music, Culture and Identity
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18122-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-18121-5Published: 26 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-18124-6Published: 26 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-18122-2Published: 14 September 2019
Series ISSN: 2634-6613
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6621
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 158
Topics: Media and Communication, Music, Digital/New Media, Popular Culture , Culture and Gender