| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 306 pages) |
| Contents |
Dig (an introduction) -- Koan (what is hip?) -- What is hip? -- The Suzuki rhythm boys -- The devil's staircase -- The black spot -- Somewhere/nowhere -- Precambrian -- Game ideology -- Smart goes crazy -- Irony -- Miles and Monk -- Somewhere/nowhere -- Sound become holy (the Beats) -- Sound become holy -- The sadness of it all -- Digging what they dig -- Astounding and prophetic -- Stenciled off the real -- Hip sensibility in an age of mass counterculture -- Right on, Mr. Horowitz -- The square -- Asymmetrical consciousness -- Elitism -- Mass culture critique -- The decline of midcentury modernism and the birth of postmodernism -- Sound museum -- Mailer's sound -- "The sound is the thing, man" -- Abstraction -- Whiteness -- Mailer's sound -- Enantiodromia -- "Let's say that we're new, every minute" (John Benson Brooks) -- Off-minor -- Music of the isms -- Djology -- Cipher -- Magical hermeneutics -- Technologies of experience -- Practice |
| Summary |
'Dig' argues that in hip culture it is sound itself, and the faculty of hearing, that is the privileged part of the sensory experience. Through a string of lucid and illuminating examples author Phil Ford shows why and how music became a central facet of hipness and the counterculture |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Popular music -- History and criticism
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Music -- Social aspects.
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Pop Vocal.
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Music -- Social aspects
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Popular music
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199939923 |
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0199939926 |
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9780199331024 |
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0199331022 |
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9780199354467 |
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0199354464 |
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