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Disruption in the Arts
The volume examines from a comparative perspective the phenomenon of aesthetic disruption within the various arts in contemporary culture. It assumes that the political potential of contemporary art is not solely derived from presenting its audiences with openly political content, but rather from creating a space of perception and interaction using formal means: a space that makes hegemonic structures of action and communication observable, thus problematizing their self-evidence. The contributions conceptualize historical and contemporary politics of form in the media, which aim to be more than mere shock strategies, which are concerned not just with the ‘narcissistic’ exhibition of art...
Popular Music and the Rise of Populism in Europe
This book focuses on the role of popular music in the rise of populism in Europe, centring on the music-related processes of sociocultural normalisation and the increasing prevalence of populist discourses in contemporary society. In its innovative combination of approaches drawing from (ethno)musicology, sociology, and political science, as well as media and cultural studies, this book develops a culture-oriented approach to populism. Based on shared research questions, an original theoretical framework and a combination of innovative methodologies that pay attention to the specific socio-historical contexts, taking into account musical material as well as processes of reception, the five c...
Artificial Intelligence - Intelligent Art?
As algorithmic data processing increasingly pervades everyday life, it is also making its way into the worlds of art, literature and music. In doing so, it shifts notions of creativity and evokes non-anthropocentric perspectives on artistic practice. This volume brings together contributions from the fields of cultural studies, literary studies, musicology and sound studies as well as media studies, sociology of technology, and beyond, presenting a truly interdisciplinary, state-of-the-art picture of the transformation of creative practice brought about by various forms of AI.
More Than Illustrated Music
The genre of the video clip has been established for more than thirty years, mainly served by the sub genres of video art and music video. This book explores processes of hybridization between music video, film, and video art by presenting current theoretical discourses and engaging them through interviews with well-known artists and directors, bringing to the surface the crucial questions of art practice. The collection discusses topics including postcolonialism, posthumanism, gender, race and class and addresses questions regarding the hybrid media structure of video, the diffusion between content and form, art and commerce as well as pop culture and counterculture. Through the diversity of the areas and interviews included, the book builds on and moves beyond earlier aesthetics-driven perspectives on music video.
Tape Matters
Trotz seiner unverkennbar zentralen Stellung für die Musikkultur der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts ist eine detaillierte und differenzierte Analyse des Tonbandes in der Medien-, Kultur- und Musikwissenschaft bisher ausgeblieben. Das Buch reagiert auf dieses Ungleichgewicht und fragt nach tonbandbedingten Veränderungen der musikalischen (Produktions-)Ästhetik in den 1950er und 1960er Jahren sowie nach damit einhergehenden Klangkonzepten. Hierfür werden ausführliche Fallstudien angestellt, die den Spuren des Tonbandes in konkreten Diskursen und Kompositionen der Musikkulturgeschichte folgen. Als Gegenstände dienen die Tonbandanwendungen und -diskursivierungen der Musique Concrète und der Elektronischen Musik sowie die Verwendungsweisen von Tonbandtechnologie in der populären Musikproduktion. Tonbandtechnologie lässt sich nicht als einfache Fortführung der Phonographie verstehen, sondern fordert in seinen praktischen, künstlerischen und klanganalytischen Anwendungen aus der Phonographie erwachsene Konzepte von Klang heraus. "Tape Matters" versteht sich damit als Gegenerzählung zu einem vom Phonographen geprägten Klangdiskurs der Moderne.
Voice Assistants in Private Homes
Voice Assistants such as Amazon's Alexa populate private homes as well as smartphones, TVs and cars. While suggesting easy living with smart devices, these assistants are criticized as the next step of corporate and state surveillance of the private home, or as harbingers of new and simplified linguistic practices. The contributors to this volume focus on the transformation and persistence of everyday linguistic, media and data practices under platformized conditions and new interfaces. This collection thus brings together perspectives from media sociology, media studies, media linguistics and domestication research.
Listening Devices
From 1940 to 1990, new machines and devices radically changed listening to music. Small and large single records, new kinds of jukeboxes and loudspeaker systems not only made it possible to playback music in a different way, they also evidence a fundamental transformation of music and listening itself. Taking the media and machines through which listening took place during this period, Listening Devices develops a new history of listening.Although these devices were (and often still are) easily accessible, up to now we have no concept of them. To address this gap, this volume proposes the term “listening device.” In conjunction with this concept, the book develops an original and fruitfu...
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