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Learn how gay men use Internet technologies to connect with others
sharing their erotic desires and to forge affirming communities
online! Getting It On Online: Cyberspace, Gay Male Sexuality, and
Embodied Identity examines the online embodied experiences of gay
men. At once scholarly and sensual, this unique book is the result
of a three-year ethnographic study chronicling the activities on
three distinct social scenes in the world of Internet Relay Chat
(IRC)virtual spaces constructed by gay men for the erotic
exploration of the male body. Examining the vital role the body
plays in defining these online spaces offers insight into how gay
men negotiate their identities through emerging communication
technologies. The author combines a critical look at the role of
the body in cyberspace with candid accounts of his own online
experiences to challenge conventional views on sex, sexuality, and
embodied identity. Getting It On Online provides an inside look at
three specific online communitiesgaychub (a community celebrating
male obesity), gaymuscle (a community formulated around images of
the muscular male body), and gaymusclebears (a space representing
the erotic convergence of the obese and muscular male bodies
emerging out of the gay male bear subculture)in an effort to
unsettle those models of beauty and the erotic depicted in more
mainstream media. The book demonstrates how the social position of
these men in the physical world in regards to age, race, gender,
class, and physical beauty influences their online experiences. Far
from a realm of bodiless exultation, Getting It On Online
illustrates how the flesh remains very much present in cyberspace.
Getting It On Online examines topics such as: why people chat
online the history of IRC (Internet Relay Chat) how people
construct their identities in cyberspace how some online spaces
function like virtual gay bars the concept of online disembodiment
the role the body plays in online social relations the future of
online communication ethnographic research in cyberspace mediated
images of the male body and the gay male beauty myth and much more!
Getting It On Online: Cyberspace, Gay Male Sexuality, and Embodied
Identity is an essential resource for anthropologists,
sociologists, and psychologists; academics working in gender
studies, queer theory, cultural studies, and cyber-culture studies;
and anyone interested in gay and lesbian issues and/or cyberspace.
Pierre Boulez is acknowledged as one of the most important
composers in contemporary musical life. This collection explores
his works, influence, reception and legacy, shedding new light on
Boulez's music and its historical and cultural contexts. In two
sections that focus firstly on the context of the 1940s and 1950s,
and secondly on the development of the composer's style, the
contributors address recurring themes such as Boulez's approach to
the serial principle and the related issues of form and large-scale
structure. Featuring excerpts from Boulez's correspondence with a
range of his contemporaries here published for the first time, the
book illuminates both Boulez's relationship with them and his
thinking concerning the challenges which confronted both him and
other leading figures of the European avant-garde. In the final
section, three chapters examine Boulez's relationship with
audiences in the United Kingdom, and the development of the
appreciation of his music.
While acknowledging that Pierre Boulez is not a philosopher, and
that he is wary of the potential misuse of philosophy with regard
to music, this study investigates a series of philosophically
charged terms and concepts which he uses in discussion of his
music. Campbell examines significant encounters which link Boulez
to the work of a number of important philosophers and thinkers,
including Adorno, Levi-Strauss, Eco and Deleuze. Relating Boulez's
music and ideas to broader currents of thought, the book
illuminates a number of affinities linking music and philosophy,
and also literature and visual art. These connections facilitate
enhanced understanding of post-war modernist music and Boulez's
distinctive approach to composition. Drawing on a wide range of
previously unpublished documentary sources and providing musical
analysis of a number of key scores, the book traces the changing
musical, philosophical and intellectual currents which inform
Boulez's work."
While acknowledging that Pierre Boulez is not a philosopher, and
that he is wary of the potential misuse of philosophy with regard
to music, this study investigates a series of philosophically
charged terms and concepts which he uses in discussion of his
music. Campbell examines significant encounters which link Boulez
to the work of a number of important philosophers and thinkers,
including Adorno, Levi-Strauss, Eco and Deleuze. Relating Boulez's
music and ideas to broader currents of thought, the book
illuminates a number of affinities linking music and philosophy,
and also literature and visual art. These connections facilitate
enhanced understanding of post-war modernist music and Boulez's
distinctive approach to composition. Drawing on a wide range of
previously unpublished documentary sources and providing musical
analysis of a number of key scores, the book traces the changing
musical, philosophical and intellectual currents which inform
Boulez's work.
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