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Hits Philosophy in the Jukebox

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ISBN-10: 082323438X

ISBN-13: 9780823234387

Edition: 2012

Authors: Peter Szendy, Will Bishop

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Hits: Philosophy in the Jukebox is an extraordinary foray into what apple has convinced us is the soundtrack of our lives. How does music come to inhabit us, to possess and haunt us? What does it mean that a piece of music can insert itself - Szendy's term for this, borrowed from German, isthe earworm - into our ears and minds? In this book, Peter Szendy probes the ever-growing and ever more global phenomenon of the hit song. Hits is the culmination of years of singular attentiveness to the unheard, the unheard-of, and the overheard, as well as of listening as it occurs when one pays anything but attention. Szendy takes us through our musical bodies, by way of members and instruments,…    
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Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication date: 4/3/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 190
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.54" long x 0.53" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English

PETER SZENDY teaches aesthetics in the Philosophy Department of the University of Nanterre. He is also advisor for the CitA(c) de la musique in Paris. He has recently published "Listen: A History of Our Ears" (Fordham).

Peter Szendy teaches aesthetics in the Philosophy Department of the University of Nanterre. He is also adviser for the Cit de la musique in Paris. In English, he has recently published Listen: A History of Our Ears and Prophecies of Leviathan: Reading Past Melville (both Fordham). Will Bishopreceived his doctorate in French Literature from the University of California,Berkeley. He lives in Paris, where he teaches and translates.