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‘We Feed Off Each Other’: Embodiment, Phenomenology and Listener Receptivity of Nirvana’s In Utero

Martin, Christopher Alan

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2006, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, Popular Culture.
Despite the fact that listening to recorded music is a predominant form of human interaction with music in general, music scholarship often continues to classify listening as a passive form of reception in comparison to the “activity” of actual music performance. This thesis presents the idea that music listening is actually an embodied and agentive form of reception that varies according to different listeners, their listening strategies, and other surrounding contexts. In order to provide detailed analysis of this assertion, Nirvana’s 1993 album In Utero is the primary recording that this thesis examines, arguing that the album contains specific embodied properties that ultimately allow for embodied forms of listening and responses within the musical experience. Phenomenological reasoning and scholarship from popular music studies, history, cultural studies, and other humanities fields contribute to the central argument.
Jeremy Wallach (Advisor)
100 p.

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  • Martin, C. A. (2006). ‘We Feed Off Each Other’: Embodiment, Phenomenology and Listener Receptivity of Nirvana’s In Utero [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1143406900

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Martin, Christopher. ‘We Feed Off Each Other’: Embodiment, Phenomenology and Listener Receptivity of Nirvana’s In Utero. 2006. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1143406900.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Martin, Christopher. "‘We Feed Off Each Other’: Embodiment, Phenomenology and Listener Receptivity of Nirvana’s In Utero." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1143406900

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)