Earworm and Event: Music, Daydreams, and Other Imaginary Refrains
Eldritch Priest, "Earworm and Event: Music, Daydreams, and Other Imaginary Refrains "
English | ISBN: 1478017988 | 2022 | 200 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1478017988 | 2022 | 200 pages | PDF | 3 MB
In Earworm and Event Eldritch Priest questions the nature of the imagination in contemporary culture through the phenomenon of the earworm: those reveries that hijack our attention, the shivers that run down our spines, and the songs that stick in our heads. Through a series of meditations on music, animal mentality, abstraction, and metaphor, Priest uses the earworm and the states of daydreaming, mind-wandering, and delusion it can produce to outline how music is something that is felt as thought rather than listened to. Priest presents
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