Bad Boris and the Birthday
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Bad Boris and the Birthday by Susie Jenkin-Pearce
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 Earworm and Event as a t te-b che--two books bound together with each end meeting in the middle. Where Earworm theorizes the entanglement of thought and feeling, Event performs it. Throughout, Priest conceptualizes the earworm as an event that offers insight into not only the way human brains process musical experiences, but how abstractions and the imagination play key roles in the composition and expression of our contemporary social environments and more-than-human milieus. Unconventional and ambitious, Earworm and Event offers new ways to interrogate the convergence of thought, sound, and affect.
Pearce, Oliver: - Oliver Pearce MB BS MRCS, Specialist Registrar in Trauma, The John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780099572008 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099572001 |
| Title | Bad Boris and the Birthday |
| Author | Susie Jenkin Pearce |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Children's UK |
| Year published | 1991-09-19 |
| Number of pages | 32 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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