Disciplines
Aesthetics | Audio Arts and Acoustics | Classical Literature and Philology | Continental Philosophy | Digital Humanities | Musicology | Other Film and Media Studies
Abstract
This essay foregrounds “covers” of popular recorded songs as well as male and female desire, in addition to Nietzsche’s interest in composition, together with his rhythmic analysis of Ancient Greek as the basis of what he called the “spirit of music” with respect to tragedy. The language of “sonic branding” allows a discussion of what Günther Anders described as the self-creation of the mass consumer but also a reflection on the ghostly time-space of music in the broadcast world. A brief allusion to Rilke complements a similarly brief reference to Jankelevitch’s “ineffable.”
Recommended Citation
Babich, Babette, "Musical “Covers” and the Culture Industry: From Antiquity to the Age of Digital Reproducibility" (2018). Articles and Chapters in Academic Book Collections. 92.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/phil_babich/92
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