Jimi Hendrix and Philosophy: Experience Required by Theodore G. Ammon (English)

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Philosophical feedback on the messiah of electric rock

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In his brief career Jimi Hendrix transformed rock music, established himself as the greatest guitarist of all time, and left a rich legacy of original songs and dazzling recordings. In Jimi Hendrix and Philosophy, philosophers come to terms with the experience and the phenomenon of Hendrix, uncovering some surprising implications of Hendrix's life and work. Much of this book is concerned with the restless polarities and dualities that reveal themselves through Hendrix.His compositions display a preoccupation with the tragic nature of life, moving between the polarities of Schopenhauer's The World as Will  and Idea and and Platonic philosophy. Jimi's "guitar-being" has surprising implications for the philosophical relation between mind and body. There is in Hendrix a duality between innovation and tradition-innovation in psychedelic sonic adventures and tradition in the form of the blues. Hendrix exemplifies the interaction of technology and art, as seen in his use of feedback, varieties of noise, and backwards reel-to-reel playing. How much of the Hendrix phenomenon can be explained by the technological situation and how much by his own unique genius? Everyone knows about Hendrix's use of feedback in the narrow sense, but feedback can also be viewed as a general phenomenon that arises in complex dynamical systems and emerges at the border of chaos and order. 

Author Biography

Theodore G. Ammon teaches philosophy, specifically logic and aesthetics, at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi. He has published numerous scholarly articles in philosophy of logic, history of philosophy, and the theory of aesthetics. He is the editor of David Bowie and Philosophy: Rebel Rebel (2016).

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In his brief career Jimi Hendrix transformed rock music, established himself as the greatest guitarist of all time, and left a rich legacy of original songs and dazzling recordings. In Jimi Hendrix and Philosophy , philosophers come to terms with the experience and the phenomenon of Hendrix, uncovering some surprising implications of Hendrix's life and work. Much of this book is concerned with the restless polarities and dualities that reveal themselves through Hendrix. His compositions display a preoccupation with the tragic nature of life, moving between the polarities of Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Idea and and Platonic philosophy. Jimi's "guitar-being" has surprising implications for the philosophical relation between mind and body. There is in Hendrix a duality between innovation and tradition--innovation in psychedelic sonic adventures and tradition in the form of the blues. Hendrix exemplifies the interaction of technology and art, as seen in his use of feedback, varieties of noise, and backwards reel-to-reel playing. How much of the Hendrix phenomenon can be explained by the technological situation and how much by his own unique genius? Everyone knows about Hendrix's use of feedback in the narrow sense, but feedback can also be viewed as a general phenomenon that arises in complex dynamical systems and emerges at the border of chaos and order.

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Growing out of the Jimi Hendrix Electric Guitar Festivals of the 1990s, the continually expanding Experience Hendrix Tour is now an annual nationwide event, in which leading rock and blues artists pay tribute to Hendrix, with its most ambitious itinerary and biggest impact yet in Spring 2017.2017 is the fiftieth anniversary of Hendrix's breakthrough as an intercontinental popular artist, and of the release of the first album of the Jim Hendrix Experience, Are You Experienced? The Jimi Hendrix live performance CD Machine Gun: The Fillmore East First Show (recorded 12/31/69) was released in September 2016, received rave reviews, and reached 66 in the Billboard 200, with subsequent solid sales.

Details ISBN0812699564 Year 2017 ISBN-10 0812699564 ISBN-13 9780812699562 Media Book Pages 256 Imprint Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S. Subtitle Experience Required Place of Publication Chicago, IL Country of Publication United States Edited by Theodore G. Ammon Format Paperback DEWEY 782.42166092 Language English UK Release Date 2017-12-12 NZ Release Date 2017-12-12 US Release Date 2017-12-12 Author Theodore G. Ammon Publisher Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S. Publication Date 2017-12-12 Audience General Series Popular Culture and Philosophy AU Release Date 2018-02-28 Illustrations Illustrations We've got this

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