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The Special Liveliness of Hooks in Popular Music and Beyond

The Special Liveliness of Hooks in Popular Music and Beyond

Smith, Steven G.

Hardcover

PhilosophyGeneral SociologyPop/Rock

ISBN10: 303123975X
ISBN13: 9783031239755
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Mar 30 2023
Pages: 189
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
This book illuminates the aesthetically underrated meaningfulness of particular elements in works of art and aesthetic experiences generally. Beginning from the idea of hooks in popular song, the book identifies experiences of special liveliness that are of enduring interest, supporting contemplation and probing discussion. When hooks are placed in the foreground of aesthetic experience, so is an enthusiastic grabbing back by the experiencer who forms a quasi-personal bond with the beloved singular moment and is probably inclined to share this still-evolving realization of value with others. This book presents numerous models of enthusiastic grabbing back that are art-critically motivated to explain how hooks achieve their effects and philosophically motivated to discover how hooks and hook appreciation contribute to a more ideally desirable life. Framing hook appreciation with a defensible general model of aesthetic experience, this book gives an unprecedented demonstration of the substantial aesthetic and philosophical interest of hook-centered inquiry.

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