Now and Forever

Towards a theory and history of the loop

Now and Forever
Tilman Baumgartel
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h216 x 140mm - 408pg
27 Jan 2023 UK
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9781789041514
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Elvis Presley and Karlheinz Stockhausen. The Beatles and Andy Warhol. Terry Riley and Ken Kesey. What all these artists have in common is that loops have played a significant role in their work. The short sequences of sounds or images repeated using recording media have proved to be an astonishingly flexible, versatile and momentous aesthetic method in post-World War II art and music. Today, loops must be counted among the most important creative tools of postmodern art and music. Yet until now they have been largely overlooked as an aesthetic phenomenon. Now, for the first time, this book tells a secret story of the 20th century: how a formerly inconspicuous basic function of all modern media technology gave rise to complete artistic oeuvres, musical styles such as minimal music, hip hop and techno, and, most recently, entire scenes and subcultures that would have been unthinkable without loops.
Tilman Baumgartel (PhD) is a writer. He lives in Berlin and teaches media studies at Hochschule Mainz. Previously he was a professor at the University of the Philippines in Manila (2005-2009) und at the Department of Media and Communication at the Royal University of Phnom Penh (2009-2012). He has written or edited nine books on various aspect of media culture, including internet art, computer games, the aesthetics of loops and the director Harun Farocki. Schleifen. Zur Geschichte und asthetik des Loops is his latest publication.
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ISBN-13: 9781789041514
Published: 27 Jan 2023
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Top Hat Books
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 140mm
Pages: 408

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