Earworm and Event: Music, Daydreams, and Other Imaginary Refrains

by Eldritch Priest

Book Overview

In Earworm and Event Eldritch Priest questions the nature of the imagination in contemporary culture through the phenomenon of the earworm: those reveries that hijack our attention, the shivers that run down our spines, and the songs that stick in our heads. Through a series of meditations on music, animal mentality, abstraction, and metaphor, Priest uses the earworm and the states of daydreaming, mind-wandering, and delusion it can produce...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478017988
• ISBN13: 9781478017981
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"