How Long to Read Peculiar Attunements

How Long Does it Take to Read Peculiar Attunements?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 53 minutes to read Peculiar Attunements by Roger Mathew Grant

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Peculiar Attunements places 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. Struggling 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.

How long is Peculiar Attunements?

Peculiar Attunements by Roger Mathew Grant is 172 pages long, and a total of 43,344 words.

This makes it 58% the length of the average book. It also has 53% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Peculiar Attunements Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 56 minutes to read Peculiar Attunements aloud.

What Reading Level is Peculiar Attunements?

Peculiar Attunements is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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