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OverviewAmbient Media examines music, video art, film, and literature as tools ofatmospheric design in contemporary Japan. Paul Roquet traces the emergence ofambient styles from the environmental music and Erik Satie boom of the 1960sand 1970s to the more recent therapeutic emphasis on healing and relaxation tomake a case for portraying ambient media as a neoliberal response to oldermodes of collective harmony. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Paul RoquetPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.272kg ISBN: 9780816692460ISBN 10: 0816692467 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 01 February 2016 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsContents Introduction: Reading the Air 1. Background Music of the Avant-Garde: The Quiet Boom of Erik Satie 2. The Sound of Embodied Security: Imaginary Landscapes of Ambient Music 3. Moving with the Rhythms of the City: Ambient Video Attunements 4. Soft Fascinations inShallow Depth: Compositing Ambient Space 5. Subtractivism: Low-Affect Living with Ambient Cinema 6. Healing Style: Ambient Literature and the Aesthetics of Calm Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Film and Videography Discography IndexReviewsThrough a series of probing interventions, Paul Roquet generates a new environment for Japan studies one that takes into account the faint, ambient, receding, and ubiquitous immaterialities that fill Japan's ether. This is a work worth noticing. Akira Mizuta Lippit, University of Southern California Ambient Media is an ambitious work that introduces the reader to a captivating cross-section of ambient media in the current Japanese mediascape, with a particular focus on sound and image-based arts. Paul Roquet smartly cuts through multiple strata from music to experimental performance to design, offering a fresh and novel perspective on the atmospheres of ambient media. Marc Steinberg, Concordia University A gateway into a world of arresting and inspiring electronic media. New Books in Music Author InformationPaul Roquet is a postdoctoral fellow in global media and film studies at Brown University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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