Table of Contents

Preface Introduction. The Culture of Repetition PART ONE: The Culture of Eros: Repetition as Desire Creation 1. Do It ('til You're Satisfied): Repetitive Musics and Recombinant Desires 2. "A Colorful Installment in the Twentieth-Century Drama of Consumer Subjectivity": Minimalism and the Phenomenology of Consumer Desire 3. The Media Sublime: Minimalism, Advertising, and Television PART TWO: The Culture of Thanatos: Repetition as Mood Regulation 4. "A Pox on Manfredini": The Long-Playing Record, the Baroque Revival, and the Birth of Ambient Music 5. "I Did This Exercise 100,000 Times": Zen, Minimalism, and the Suzuki Method Notes List of Illustrations Index

About the Author

Robert Fink is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Reviews

"The most important, and clearly that most culturally and theoretically informed, of any of the major studies on minimalism. No other book comes remotely close to establishing the historical links between early postmodernist Euro-American social changes. Fink's scholarship is as impeccable as his readings of minimalist compositions are stunningly insightful. Not least, the book is beautifully written."