Hits: Philosophy in the Jukebox

by Peter Szendy

Book Overview

Hits: Philosophy in the Jukebox is an extraordinary foray into what apple has convinced us is "the soundtrack of our lives." How does music come to inhabit us, to possess and haunt us? What does it mean that a piece of music can insert itself--Szendy's term for this, borrowed from German, is the earworm--into our ears and minds?

In this book, Peter Szendy probes the ever-growing and ever more global phenomenon of the hit song. Hits is the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082323438X
• ISBN13: 9780823234387
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"