{"product_id":"play-it-again-sam-9780262552325","title":"Play It Again Sam","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhy we enjoy works of art, and how repetition plays a central part in the pleasure we receive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeonard Bernstein, in his famous \u003ci\u003eNorton Lectures\u003c\/i\u003e (1976) extolled repetition, saying that it gave poetry its musical qualities and that music theorists? refusal to take it seriously did so at their peril.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlay It Again, Sam\u003c\/i\u003e takes Bernstein seriously.In this book, Samuel Jay Keyser explores in detail the way repetition works in poetry, music, and painting. He argues, for example, that rhyme in metrical verse is identical to the way songwriters like Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn (\u003ci\u003eSatin Doll\u003c\/i\u003e) and Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart (\u003ci\u003eMy Funny Valentine\u003c\/i\u003e) constructed their iconic melodies. Furthermore, the form of these tunes can be found in such classical compositions as Mozart?s \u003ci\u003eRondo Alla Turca\u003c\/i\u003e and his \u003ci\u003eGerman Dances\u003c\/i\u003e as well as in galant music in general.\u003cbr\u003eThe author also looks at repetition in paintings like \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eCaillebotte?s \u003ci\u003eRainy Day in Paris\u003c\/i\u003e, Warhol?s \u003ci\u003eCampbell Soup Cans,\u003c\/i\u003e and Pollock?s drip paintings.Finally, the photography of Lee Friedlander, Roni Horn, and Osmond Giglia\u003ci\u003e?\u003c\/i\u003eGiglia?s \u003ci\u003eGirls in the Windows\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the highest grossing photographs in history?are all shown to be built on repetition in the form of visual rhyme.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book ends with a cognitive conjecture on why repetition \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ehas been so prominent in the arts from the Homeric epics through Duke Ellington andbeyond.Artists have exploitedrepetitionthroughout the ages. The reason why it is straightforward:\u003ci\u003e the brain finds the detection of repetition innately pleasurable. Play It Again, Sam\u003c\/i\u003e offers experimental evidence to support this claim.","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51017717154135,"sku":"9780262552325","price":26.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780262552325.jpg?v=1750774436","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/play-it-again-sam-9780262552325","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}