Anatomy of Thought-Fiction: CHS Report, April 2214 - Brossura

Demers, Joanna

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ISBN 10: 1785353810 ISBN 13: 9781785353819

Casa editrice: Zero Books, 2017

Riassunto

In the year 2214, the Center for Humanistic Study has discovered an unpublished manuscript by Joanna Demers, a musicologist who lived some two centuries before. Her writing interrogates the music of artists ranging from David Bowie and Scott W

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Recensione:

Glam Rock and Its Legacy: Focused on music, but with implications that extend to just about everything, Anatomy of Thought-Fiction explores the role of false ideas in our intellectual and emotional life. Joanna Demers elegant monograph (or should that be polygraph?) softly shatters myths and tenderly takes apart received wisdom. Yet this cluster-bomb of a book also leaves the reader convinced that illusions arent just useful, theyre indispensable: a thought at once unsettling and liberating. --Simon Reynolds, Author of Retromania and Shock and Awe

L'autore:

Joanna Demers is associate professor of Musicology at the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music, where she specializes in post1945 popular and art music.

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• Editore: Zero Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1785353810
• ISBN 13: 9781785353819
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 138