- 256 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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About This Book
An interdisciplinary and existential exploration of live musical reenactment
In this persuasive study, Tracy McMullen draws on philosophy, psychology, musicology, performance studies, and popular music studies in order to analyze the rise of obsessively precise live musical reenactments in the United States at the turn of the millennium. She investigates this practice, what she terms, Replay, in popular music, jazz, and performance art arguing that it is a symptom of deep-seated fears of the fleeting nature of identity. Musical Replay claims a type of authenticity that is grounded in the exact material details of the original (instruments, props, costumes, people, etc.), and attempts to make up for the loss of identity: cloning the past and using it as a replacement. The scholarship is wide-ranging and ties theory and evidence from diverse fields and experiences together seamlessly and convincingly. Haunthenticity: Musical Replay and the Fear of the Real ultimately argues for a new way of conceiving subjectivity and identity within critical and cultural studies, moving beyond Western epistemologies.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Haunthenticity: Repetition and Identity Compulsion in Cultural Production
- One Performing Security: Replay as the Performance of the “Perfectly Known”
- Two Capturing the Real: Ziggy’s Strain and Old Hells
- Three If I Should Lose You: Keeping Jazz Alive
- Four The Importance of White Women Being Earnest: Lez Zeppelin and the Performance of Cock Rock
- Conclusion A Different Lean: On Intimacy and Emptiness
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Music / Culture
- About the Author