{"product_id":"peculiar-attunements-how-affect-theory-turned-musical-9780823287741","title":"Peculiar Attunements: How Affect Theory Turned Musical","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Roger Mathew Grant\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Philosophy \u0026amp; Social Aspects\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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--or passions, as they were also called--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 it wasn't apparent that musical tones could imitate anything with any dependability, beyond the rare thunderclap or birdcall. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStruggling to articulate how it was that music managed to move its auditors without imitation, certain theorists developed a new affect theory crafted especially for music, postulating that music's physical materiality as sound vibrated the nerves of listeners and attuned them to the affects through sympathetic resonance. This was a theory of affective attunement that bypassed the entire structure of representation, offering a non-discursive, corporeal alternative. It is a pendant to 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, this book offers a reassessment of affect theory's common systems and processes. It offers a new way of thinking through affect dialectically, drawing attention to patterns and problems in affect theory that we have been given to repeating. Finally, taking a cue from eighteenth-century theory, it gives renewed attention to the objects that generate affects in subjects.","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47780087824535,"sku":"9780823287741","price":3944.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780823287741.webp?v=1778042294","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/peculiar-attunements-how-affect-theory-turned-musical-9780823287741","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}