- 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
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Introduction: Listening Through the Body
Pages 1-17
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Materiality, the Bodymind, and Music Listening
Pages 19-48
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Liveness in the Age of Digitization
Pages 49-76
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Screen as Skin: The Somatechnics of Touchscreen Music Media
Pages 77-98
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The ‘Creative Listener:’ Internet, Music, and the Computer-Bodymind Somatechnic
Pages 99-122
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Somatechnics and Popular Music in Digital Contexts
- Authors
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- Laura Glitsos
- Series Title
- Pop Music, Culture and Identity
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-18122-2
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-18122-2
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-18121-5
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XI, 158
- Topics
