{"product_id":"dig-sound-and-music-in-hip-culture-9780199939916","title":"Dig: Sound and Music in Hip Culture","description":"Hipness has been an indelible part of America's intellectual and cultural landscape since the 1940s. But the question \u003cem\u003eWhat is hip?\u003c\/em\u003e remains a kind of cultural koan, equally intriguing and elusive. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003cem\u003eDig\u003c\/em\u003e, Phil Ford argues that while hipsters have always used clothing, hairstyle, gesture, and slang to mark their distance from consensus culture, music has consistently been the primary means of resistance, the royal road to hip. Hipness suggests a particular kind of alienation from\u003cbr\u003esociety--alienation due not to any specific political wrong but to something more radical, a clash of perception and consciousness. From the vantage of hipness, the dominant culture constitutes a system bent on excluding creativity, self-awareness, and self-expression. The hipster's project is thus\u003cbr\u003eto define himself \u003cem\u003eagainst \u003c\/em\u003ethis system, to resist being stamped in its uniform, squarish mold. Ford explores radio shows, films, novels, poems, essays, jokes, and political manifestos, but argues that music more than any other form of expression has shaped the alienated hipster's identity. Indeed, \u003cbr\u003efor many avant-garde subcultures music is their raison d'être. Hip intellectuals conceived of sound itself as a way of challenging meaning--that which is cognitive and abstract, timeless and placeless--with experience--that which is embodied, concrete and anchored in place and time. Through Charlie\u003cbr\u003eParker's Ornithology, Ken Nordine's Sound Museum, Bob Dylan's Ballad of a Thin Man, and a range of other illuminating examples, Ford shows why and how music came to be at the center of hipness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShedding new light on an enigmatic concept, \u003cem\u003eDig\u003c\/em\u003e is essential reading for students and scholars of popular music and culture, as well as anyone fascinated by the counterculture movement of the mid-twentieth-century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublication of this book was supported by the AMS 75 PAYS Endowment of the American Musicological Society, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Phil Ford\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/13\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199939916\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePhil Ford \u003c\/strong\u003eis Assistant Professor of Music at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. His work focuses on American popular music in the cold war, performance and auditory culture studies, and the intellectual history of counterculture. He was founder and co-author of the \u003cem\u003eDial 'M' for\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eMusicology\u003c\/em\u003e weblog.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39937678835827,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":32.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_6ae87707-7745-41cb-8147-2ce17e8ab98a.jpg?v=1647995598","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/dig-sound-and-music-in-hip-culture-9780199939916","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}