Somatechnics and Popular Music in Digital Contexts

• Main Author: Glitsos, Laura (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Pop Music, Culture and Identity
• Subjects: Communication.; Music.; Digital media.; Popular Culture.; Culture.; Gender.; Media and Communication.; Digital/New Media.; Popular Culture .; Culture and Gender.

'Laura Glitsos makes an important contribution to both somatechnics and popular music studies by asking how digital technologies act on our bodies as they experience popular music today. Her book, Somatechnics and Popular Music in Digital Contexts, explores the transformation of listening bodie...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Listening Through the Body
• 2. Materiality, the Bodymind, and Music Listening
• 3. Liveness in the Age of Digitization
• 4.Screen as Skin: The Somatechnics of Touchscreen Music Media
• 5. The 'Creative Listener:' Internet, Music, and the Computer-Bodymind Somatechnic
• 6. Future Bodies, Future Music
• 7. Conclusion: Music as Somatechné.