{"product_id":"earworm-and-event-9781478017981","title":"Earworm and Event","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eEarworm and Event\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eEarworm and Event\u003c\/i\u003e as a tête-bêche—two books bound together with each end meeting in the middle. Where \u003ci\u003eEarworm \u003c\/i\u003etheorizes the entanglement of thought and feeling, \u003ci\u003eEvent \u003c\/i\u003eperforms 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 expressio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“It may seem unlikely that the cheesy pop song that has been looping around your head for the past three weeks has anything else to say—beyond the preference for piña coladas in the rain. On the contrary, Eldritch Priest’s new book, \u003ci\u003eEarworm and Event\u003c\/i\u003e, explores with great rigor, insight, and imagination the ways in which such innocuous looped sonic refrains tell us a great deal about our own sense of self, the technical environments which we are obliged to navigate, and the sociopolitical impasses in which we find ourselves.” -- Dominic Pettman, author of * Sonic Intimacy: Voice, Species, Technics (or, How to Listen to the World) *\u003cbr\u003e“In this provocative and creatively written book Eldritch Priest argues that listening practices in the contemporary moment of accelerated capitalism are less about aesthetic pleasure and more about forms of power. \u003ci\u003eEarworm and Event\u003c\/i\u003e brings the study of sound, listening, and affect into new realms of imagination.” -- Deborah A. Kapchan, editor of * Theorizing Sound Writing *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eEarworm And Event \u003c\/i\u003epositions music and pataphysical speculations about its conditions as uneven parts of a structure that, like the worm, loops inconclusively around itself. The book's structure, with two halves bound back to back and upside down with respect to each other, makes this quite literal. . . . Priest admirably refuses any claim to political- aesthetic radicalism for the earworm or experimental music that might absorb it.\" -- Dan Barrow * The Wire *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Earworm\u003cbr\u003e 1. Felt as Thought\u003cbr\u003e 2. Earworms, Daydreams, and the Fate of Useless Thinking\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Worm Refrain (or, Does Nature Get Earworms?)\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Event\u003cbr\u003e 1. What It's Like to Think Like What It's Like to Think Like What It's Like\u003cbr\u003e 2. Beating a Dead Beetle\u003cbr\u003e 3. Impactical Enthusiasm\u003cbr\u003e 4. Ex Post Facto ex Ante (or, It's All in the Setup. . . .?\u003cbr\u003e 5. Do Earworms Have Daydreams?\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409007386967,"sku":"9781478017981","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478017981.jpg?v=1730505067","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/earworm-and-event-9781478017981","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}