Just Vibrations: The Purpose of Sounding Good

Modern academic criticism bursts with what Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick once termed paranoid readings—interpretative feats that aim to prove a point, persuade an audience, and subtly denigrate anyone who disagrees. Driven by strategies of negation and suspicion, such rhetoric tends to drown out softer-spok...

وصف كامل

محفوظ في:
التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Cheng, William
التنسيق: Online
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: University of Michigan Press 2021
الموضوعات:
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:1006131
الوسوم: إضافة وسم
لا توجد وسوم, كن أول من يضع وسما على هذه التسجيلة!
_version_ 1869529360129589248
author Cheng, William
author_browse Cheng, William
author_facet Cheng, William
author_sort Cheng, William
collection Directory of Open Access Books
description Modern academic criticism bursts with what Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick once termed paranoid readings—interpretative feats that aim to prove a point, persuade an audience, and subtly denigrate anyone who disagrees. Driven by strategies of negation and suspicion, such rhetoric tends to drown out softer-spoken reparative efforts, which forego forceful argument in favor of ruminations on pleasure, love, sentiment, reform, care, and accessibility. Just Vibrations: The Purpose of Sounding Good calls for a time-out in our serious games of critical exchange. Charting the divergent paths of paranoid and reparative affects through illness narratives, academic work, queer life, noise pollution, sonic torture, and other touchy subjects, William Cheng exposes a host of stubborn norms in our daily orientations toward scholarship, self, and sound. How we choose to think about the perpetration and tolerance of critical and acoustic offenses may ultimately lead us down avenues of ethical ruin—or, if we choose, repair. With recourse to experimental rhetoric, interdisciplinary discretion, and the playful wisdoms of childhood, Cheng contends that reparative attitudes toward music and musicology can serve as barometers of better worlds.
format Online
id doab-20.500.12854ir-38931
institution Directory of Open Access Books
language eng
publishDate 2021
publishDateRange 2021
publishDateSort 2021
publisher University of Michigan Press
publisherStr University of Michigan Press
record_format ojs
spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-389312025-03-12T21:29:04Z Just Vibrations: The Purpose of Sounding Good Cheng, William Media thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music Modern academic criticism bursts with what Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick once termed paranoid readings—interpretative feats that aim to prove a point, persuade an audience, and subtly denigrate anyone who disagrees. Driven by strategies of negation and suspicion, such rhetoric tends to drown out softer-spoken reparative efforts, which forego forceful argument in favor of ruminations on pleasure, love, sentiment, reform, care, and accessibility. Just Vibrations: The Purpose of Sounding Good calls for a time-out in our serious games of critical exchange. Charting the divergent paths of paranoid and reparative affects through illness narratives, academic work, queer life, noise pollution, sonic torture, and other touchy subjects, William Cheng exposes a host of stubborn norms in our daily orientations toward scholarship, self, and sound. How we choose to think about the perpetration and tolerance of critical and acoustic offenses may ultimately lead us down avenues of ethical ruin—or, if we choose, repair. With recourse to experimental rhetoric, interdisciplinary discretion, and the playful wisdoms of childhood, Cheng contends that reparative attitudes toward music and musicology can serve as barometers of better worlds. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2019-11-09 03:00:32 2020-04-01T09:35:39Z 2016 book 1006131 OCN: 993676512 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24002 9780472073252;9780472053254 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/38931 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24002/1/1006131.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24002/1/1006131.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24002/1/1006131.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24002/1/1006131.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24002/1/1006131.pdf University of Michigan Press 10.3998/mpub.9293551 10.3998/mpub.9293551 b7359529-e5f7-4510-a59f-d7dafa1d4d17 9780472073252;9780472053254 181 Ann Arbor open access
spellingShingle Media
thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music
Cheng, William
Just Vibrations: The Purpose of Sounding Good
title Just Vibrations: The Purpose of Sounding Good
title_full Just Vibrations: The Purpose of Sounding Good
title_fullStr Just Vibrations: The Purpose of Sounding Good
title_full_unstemmed Just Vibrations: The Purpose of Sounding Good
title_short Just Vibrations: The Purpose of Sounding Good
title_sort just vibrations the purpose of sounding good
topic Media
thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music
topic_facet Media
thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music
url 1006131
work_keys_str_mv AT chengwilliam justvibrationsthepurposeofsoundinggood