Earworm and Event
Music, Daydreams, and Other Imaginary Refrains
1st Edition
Published on 14. January 2022
200 pages
978-1-4780-2259-6 (ISBN)
Description
Eldritch Priest questions the nature of sound, music, thought, and affect by analyzing the phenomenon of the earworm: those reveries that hijack our attention, the shivers that run down our spines, and the songs that stick in our heads.
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Eldritch Priest is Assistant Professor in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University, author of Boring Formless Nonsense: Experimental Music and the Aesthetics of Failure, and coauthor of Ludic Dreaming: How to Listen Away from Contemporary Technoculture.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Earworm
1. Felt as Thought
2. Earworms, Daydreams, and the Fate of Useless Thinking
3. The Worm Refrain (or, Does Nature Get Earworms?)
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Event
1. What It's Like to Think Like What It's Like to Think Like What It's Like
2. Beating a Dead Beetle
3. Impactical Enthusiasm
4. Ex Post Facto ex Ante (or, It's All in the Setup.?
5. Do Earworms Have Daydreams?
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Introduction. Earworm
1. Felt as Thought
2. Earworms, Daydreams, and the Fate of Useless Thinking
3. The Worm Refrain (or, Does Nature Get Earworms?)
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Event
1. What It's Like to Think Like What It's Like to Think Like What It's Like
2. Beating a Dead Beetle
3. Impactical Enthusiasm
4. Ex Post Facto ex Ante (or, It's All in the Setup.?
5. Do Earworms Have Daydreams?
Notes
Works Cited
Index
