Umfang:
ix, 176 Seiten
,
25 cm
ISBN:
9781138088757
Inhalt:
Introduction: listening to the savage heart of the American dream -- Ethnography: getting spun as method -- Campaign as modern magic -- Prelude: the noise of politics/the politics of noise -- Sonic democracy: the noise is the signal -- The passions of politics: affect, empathy, and sound -- The populist sensorium: the politics of sounding and the performance of listening -- Our politics: deafened and dumbstruck -- Conclusion: in defense of noise.
Inhalt:
"Noise, Affect and the Presidential Campaign: Discordant Magic paints a portrait of the political experience at a pivotal time in American political and social history. The modern political campaign is aestheticized and assimilated into mass culture, divorced from fact and policy, and nakedly tethered to emotional appeal. Through a multi-modal comparative examination of the sonic and emotional cultures of the 2008 and 2016 campaigns, Justin Patch raises critical queries about our affective relationship to modern politics and the impact of emotional campaigning on democracy. Broadly stated, Discordant Magic asks: how do campaign sounds affect us; what role do we the electorate play in creating and sustaining these sounds and affects; and what actions do they generate? Theories from anthropology, cognitive science, sound studies and philosophy are engaged to grapple with these questions and connect bombastic mass-mediated political events, campaign media and individual sonic experience. The analyses complicate notions of top-down campaigning, political spin, and enthusiastic millennial populism by examining our role in producing and animating political sounds through conversation, applause, laughter, media, and music"--
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781315109671
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
USA Präsident
;
Präsidentenwahl
;
Wahlkampf
;
Politische Kampagne
;
Geschichte 2008
;
USA Präsident
;
Präsidentenwahl
;
Wahlkampf
;
Politische Kampagne
;
Geschichte 2016
