Somatechnics And Popular Music In Digital Contexts

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xi Introduction: Listening Through the Body (Laura Glitsos)....Pages 1-17 Materiality, the Bodymind, and Music Listening (Laura Glitsos)....Pages 19-48 Liveness in the Age of Digitization (Laura Glitsos)....Pages 49-76 Screen as Skin: The Somatechnics of Touchscreen Music Media (Laura Glitsos)....Pages 77-98 The ‘Creative Listener:’ Internet, Music, and the Computer-Bodymind Somatechnic (Laura Glitsos)....Pages 99-122 Future Bodies, Future Music (Laura Glitsos)....Pages 123-143 Conclusion: Music as Somatechné (Laura Glitsos)....Pages 145-155 Back Matter ....Pages 157-158