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.