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Just Vibrations
William Cheng
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Description for Just Vibrations
Hardback. An urgently needed look at the ethical stakes of contemporary musical life and musical scholarship Num Pages: 192 pages, 17 images. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Modern academic criticism bursts with what Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick oncetermed paranoid readings—interpretative feats that aim to prove a point,persuade an audience, and subtly denigrate anyone who disagrees.Driven by strategies of negation and suspicion, such rhetoric tendsto drown out softer-spoken reparative efforts, which forego forcefulargument in favor of ruminations on pleasure, love, sentiment, reform,care, and accessibility.
Just Vibrations: The Purpose of Sounding Good calls for a time-out inour serious games of critical exchange. Charting the divergent paths ofparanoid and reparative affects through illness narratives, academicwork, queer life, noise pollution, sonic torture, and other touchy subjects,William Cheng exposes a host of ... Read more
Modern academic criticism bursts with what Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick oncetermed paranoid readings—interpretative feats that aim to prove a point,persuade an audience, and subtly denigrate anyone who disagrees.Driven by strategies of negation and suspicion, such rhetoric tendsto drown out softer-spoken reparative efforts, which forego forcefulargument in favor of ruminations on pleasure, love, sentiment, reform,care, and accessibility.
Just Vibrations: The Purpose of Sounding Good calls for a time-out inour serious games of critical exchange. Charting the divergent paths ofparanoid and reparative affects through illness narratives, academicwork, queer life, noise pollution, sonic torture, and other touchy subjects,William Cheng exposes a host of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of Michigan Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472073252
SKU
V9780472073252
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About William Cheng
William Cheng is Assistant Professor of Music at Dartmouth College, USA.
Reviews for Just Vibrations
“Just Vibrations is without question a groundbreaking book, bothaccessible to a wide readership (including undergraduate students) andtheoretically nuanced. Cheng elegantly balances clarity of explanationwith a depth and breadth of scholarship that encourage the reader todive more deeply into the theoretical underpinnings of his readings andinterpretative approaches. All this is accomplished through a writing stylethat is eminently readable, borderline poetic at ... Read more