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Radiohead and the Global Movement for Change - "Pragmatism Not Idealism" (Hardcover)
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Radiohead and the Global Movement for Change - "Pragmatism Not Idealism" (Hardcover)
Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Communication Studies
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Even prior to the field's invention, Susanne Langer implied that
the arts are all subtopics of Communication Studies. This unique
project has effectively allowed the author to combine his
backgrounds in the interdisciplinary fields of popular music
studies, cultural theory, communication studies, and the practice
of music criticism. This book investigates the fascinating and
important work of the British group Radiohead, named by Time
Magazine among its Top 100 Most Influential People of 2008, and
focuses particularly on their landmark recording OK Computer
(1997), a document preserved as part of the Library of Congress
National Recording Registry in 2015. Probing the band's exploration
of the crucial issues surrounding contemporary technological
development, especially as it relates to the concern of human
survival, Radiohead and the Global Movement for Change is
essentially a work of criticism that in its analysis combines what
is known as 'musical hermeneutics' with the media ecology
perspective. In this way, the author delineates how Radiohead's
work operates as a clarion call that directs our attention to the
troubling complex of cultural conditions that Neil Postman (1992)
identifies as 'Technopoly' or 'the surrender of culture to
technology'-a phenomenon that must become more broadly recognized
and comprehended in order for it to be successfully confronted.
This book's distinguishing features include: 1) its edifying
analysis of a richly profound and celebrated musical text; 2) its
extended focus upon what Martin Heidegger famously refers to as
'the question concerning technology'; 3) its use of the media
ecology scholarly tradition at whose core lies communication study;
and 4) its innovative and unique deployment of the affect-script
theory of American personality theorist Silvan Tomkins in the study
of musical communication.
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