Bibliograph

Metal, rock, and jazz, perception and the phenomenology of musical experience, Harris M. Berger

Type

Label

Metal, rock, and jazz, perception and the phenomenology of musical experience, Harris M. Berger

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Metal, rock, and jazz

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Harris M. Berger

Series statement

Music/culture

Sub title

perception and the phenomenology of musical experience

Summary

A lively comparison of musical meaning in Ohio's Jazz, metal, and hard rock scene. This vivid ethnography of the musical lives of heavy metal, rock, and jazz musicians in Cleveland and Akron, Ohio shows how musicians engage with the world of sound to forge meaningful experiences of music. Unlike most popular music studies, which only provide a scholar's view, this book is based on intensive fieldwork and hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews. Rich descriptions of the musical life of metal bars and jazz clubs get readers close to the people who make and listen to the music. Of special interest are Harris M. Berger's interviews with Timmy "The Ripper" Owens, now famous as lead singer for the pioneering heavy metal band, Judas Priest. Owens and other performers share their own experiences of the music, thereby challenging traditional notions of harmony and musical structure. Using ideas from practice theory and phenomenology, Berger shows that musical perception is a kind of practice, both creatively achieved by the listener and profoundly informed by social context

Target audience

adult

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