基本説明
In this significant revisionist account of minimalist music, Robert Fink connects repetitive music to the postwar evolution of an American mass consumer society.
Contents
Preface Introduction. The Culture of Repetition PART ONE: The Culture of Eros: Repetition as Desire Creation 1. Do It ('til You're Satisfied): Repetitive Musics and Recombinant Desires 2. "A Colorful Installment in the Twentieth-Century Drama of Consumer Subjectivity": Minimalism and the Phenomenology of Consumer Desire 3. The Media Sublime: Minimalism, Advertising, and Television PART TWO: The Culture of Thanatos: Repetition as Mood Regulation 4. "A Pox on Manfredini": The Long-Playing Record, the Baroque Revival, and the Birth of Ambient Music 5. "I Did This Exercise 100,000 Times": Zen, Minimalism, and the Suzuki Method Notes List of Illustrations Index