Re-Composing YouTube
Vernacular Musical Aesthetics in the Digital Age
1st Edition
Published on 3. September 2024
280 pages
978-3-8394-7382-5 (ISBN)
Description
YouTube features a wide array of multimodal musical figurations, including fan-made music videos, musical aestheticisations of pre-circulating content, and musical self-performances. Jonas Wolf explores open-ended forms of musical creative relay on YouTube, delving into formal, imitative, affective, and (non-)institutional aspects of networked media remix and (self-)aestheticisation. Beyond creating value for non-musical fields of discourse, this study is directed at filling a gap in a largely ocularcentric domain of study. It provides a concise theory of vernacular composition within our time's total digital archive that accounts for socio-aesthetic phenomena and their relation to systems of knowledge, control, and discourse.
Reviews / Votes
Reviewed in: The Journal of Popular Culture, 11.02.2025, Yun Wu/Yuwei HuangMore details
Series
Thesis
Doctoral thesis
2023
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
Language
English
Place of publication
Bielefeld
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
43
38 farbige Abbildungen, 5 s/w Abbildungen
5 SW-Abbildungen, 46 Farbabbildungen
File size
6,93 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-8394-7382-5 (9783839473825)
DOI
10.14361/9783839473825
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
10/2024
1st Edition
transcript
€0.00
Available for download
Book
09/2024
1st Edition
transcript
€49.00
Available immediately
Person
Jonas Wolf is a musicologist interested in the relationships between musical discourse, cultural and artistic practices as well as historical and contemporary media environments. After graduating from Folkwang Universität der Künste (Essen, Germany), he joined the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) at Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, where he defended his doctoral thesis in 2023. His theoretical and methodological approach is informed by a wide array of disciplines and schools of study such as critical theory, poststructuralist theory, semiotics, psychoanalysis and media studies.
