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Anatomy of Thought Fiction
CHD Report, April 2214
by Joanna Demers
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Pub Date
28 Jul 2017
| Archive Date
3 Aug 2017
Description
In
the year 2214, the Center for Humanistic Study has discovered an unpublished
manuscript by Joanna Demers, a musicologist who lived some two centuries
before. Her writing interrogates the music of artists ranging from David Bowie
and Scott Walker to Kanye West and The KLF. Questioning how people of the early
twenty-first century could have believed that music was alive, and that music
was simultaneously on the brink of extinction, light is shed on why the United
States subsequently chose to eliminate the humanities from universities, and to
embrace fascism...
In the year 2214, the Center for Humanistic Study has discovered an unpublished manuscript by Joanna Demers, a musicologist who lived some two centuries before...
Description
In
the year 2214, the Center for Humanistic Study has discovered an unpublished
manuscript by Joanna Demers, a musicologist who lived some two centuries
before. Her writing interrogates the music of artists ranging from David Bowie
and Scott Walker to Kanye West and The KLF. Questioning how people of the early
twenty-first century could have believed that music was alive, and that music
was simultaneously on the brink of extinction, light is shed on why the United
States subsequently chose to eliminate the humanities from universities, and to
embrace fascism...
A Note From the Publisher
Great commercial interest in future dystopian worlds, although it is rare to find this subject outside of YA literature. Anatomy of Thought-Fiction explores dystopian themes for the adult reader. The first book of experimental fiction in the field of musicology, which relates controversies in popular music to larger philosophical issues.
Great commercial interest in future dystopian worlds, although it is rare to find this subject outside of YA literature. Anatomy of Thought-Fiction explores dystopian themes for the adult reader. The...
A Note From the Publisher
Great commercial interest in future dystopian worlds, although it is rare to find this subject outside of YA literature. Anatomy of Thought-Fiction explores dystopian themes for the adult reader. The first book of experimental fiction in the field of musicology, which relates controversies in popular music to larger philosophical issues.
Advance Praise
Focused
on music, but with implications that extend to just about everything, Anatomy
of Thought-Fiction explores the role of false ideas in our intellectual and
emotional life. Joanna Demers’ elegant monograph (or should that be polygraph?)
softly shatters myths and tenderly takes apart received wisdom. Yet this
cluster-bomb of a book also leaves the reader convinced that illusions aren’t
just useful, they’re indispensable: a thought at once unsettling and
liberating.
Simon Reynolds (Author of Retromania and Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and
Its Legacy)
Focused on music, but with implications that extend to just about everything, Anatomy of Thought-Fiction explores the role of false ideas in our intellectual and...
Advance Praise
Focused
on music, but with implications that extend to just about everything, Anatomy
of Thought-Fiction explores the role of false ideas in our intellectual and
emotional life. Joanna Demers’ elegant monograph (or should that be polygraph?)
softly shatters myths and tenderly takes apart received wisdom. Yet this
cluster-bomb of a book also leaves the reader convinced that illusions aren’t
just useful, they’re indispensable: a thought at once unsettling and
liberating.
Simon Reynolds (Author of Retromania and Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and
Its Legacy)
Marketing Plan
Joanna Demers is associate
professor of Musicology at the University of Southern California's Thornton
School of Music, where she specializes in post-1945 popular and art music.
Joanna Demers is associate professor of Musicology at the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music, where she specializes in post-1945 popular and...
Marketing Plan
Joanna Demers is associate
professor of Musicology at the University of Southern California's Thornton
School of Music, where she specializes in post-1945 popular and art music.
Available Editions
| EDITION |
Paperback |
| ISBN |
9781785353819 |
| PRICE |
£9.99 (GBP)
|
Additional Information
Available Editions
| EDITION |
Paperback |
| ISBN |
9781785353819 |
| PRICE |
£9.99 (GBP)
|
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