{"product_id":"peculiar-attunements-how-affect-theory-turned-musical-paperback","title":"Peculiar Attunements: How Affect Theory Turned Musical - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRoger Mathew Grant\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeculiar Attunements \u003c\/i\u003eplaces the recent turn to affect into conversation with an earlier affective turn that took place in European music theory of the eighteenth century. It offers a new way of thinking through affect historically and dialectically, drawing attention to repeating patterns and problems in affect theory's history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Affect theorists and musicologists have been waiting for a book like this for a very long time, and we are lucky to get it from a thinker as clear-sighted as Grant. With its unparalleled lucidity, and lively, nimble prose, \u003ci\u003e Peculiar Attunements\u003c\/i\u003e promises to be an instant classic in the study of affect and emotion.\"--\u003cb\u003eSianne Ngai\u003c\/b\u003e, University of Chicago \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Why is contemporary affect theory suffused with words like resonance, reverberation, tuning, vibration--language that conjures up music? Roger Grant, in posing that question, mounts a formidable and extraordinarily clear-headed critique of affect theory, while at the same time identifying and then demystifying its strange affinities with eighteenth-century theories about music's power. This rich theoretical harvest becomes the framework for Grant's novel take on mimesis and meaning in eighteenth-century instrumental music and opera, in a book that reimagines this repertory in ways that are subtle, surprising, revelatory--a tour-de-force.\"--\u003cb\u003eCarolyn Abbate\u003c\/b\u003e, Harvard University \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeculiar Attunements \u003c\/i\u003eplaces the recent turn to affect into conversation with a parallel movement in European music theory of the eighteenth century. During that time the affects formed a vital component of a mimetic model of the arts. Eighteenth-century critics held that artworks imitated or copied the natural world in order to produce copies of the affects in their beholders. But music caused a problem for such theories, since--apart from the rare thunderclap or birdcall--it wasn't apparent that musical tones could imitate anything with any dependability. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs a result, eighteenth-century thinkers postulated that music's physical materiality as sound vibrated the nerves of listeners and attuned them to the affects through sympathetic resonance. This theory is a pendant to our contemporary theories of affect, and one from which they have much to learn. Inflecting our current intellectual moment through eighteenth-century music theory and aesthetics, Grant offers a reassessment of affect theory's common systems and processes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoger Mathew Grant\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Music at Wesleyan University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eBeating Time and Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era\u003c\/i\u003e (Oxford), which won the 2016 Society for Music Theory Emerging Scholar Award.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoger Mathew Grant is Associate Professor of Music at Wesleyan University. His first book, \u003ci\u003eBeating Time and Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era\u003c\/i\u003e (Oxford, 2014) won the Emerging Scholar Award from the Society for Music Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.41 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 03, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51793165189408,"sku":"9780823287741","price":61.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/519fe95d650d74d726a243b8bc00cc39.webp?v=1780715247","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/peculiar-attunements-how-affect-theory-turned-musical-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}