{"product_id":"play-it-again-sam-isbn-9780262552325","title":"Play It Again, Sam","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhy we enjoy works of art, and how repetition plays a central part in the pleasure we receive.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeonard Bernstein, in his famous \u003ci\u003eNorton Lectures\u003c\/i\u003e, extolled repetition, saying that it gave poetry its musical qualities and that music theorists' refusal to take it seriously did so at their peril.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlay It Again, Sam \u003c\/i\u003etakes Bernstein seriously. In this book, Samuel Jay Keyser explores in detail the way repetition works in poetry, music, and painting. He argues, for example, that the same cognitive function underlies both how poets write rhyme in metrical verse and the way songwriters like Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn (“Satin Doll”) and Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart (“My Funny Valentine”) construct their iconic melodies. Furthermore, the repetition found in these tunes can also be found in such classical compositions as Mozart's \u003ci\u003eRondo alla Turca \u003c\/i\u003eand his \u003ci\u003eGerman Dances\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as in galant music in general.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author also looks at repetition in paintings like Gustave Caillebotte's \u003ci\u003eRainy Day in Paris\u003c\/i\u003e, Andy Warhol’s \u003ci\u003eCampbell's Soup Cans, \u003c\/i\u003eand Jackson Pollock’s drip paintings. Finally, the photography of Lee Friedlander, Roni Horn, and Osmond Giglia\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003eGiglia's \u003ci\u003eGirls in the Windows\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the highest-grossing photographs in history—are all shown to be built on repetition in the form of visual rhyme.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book ends with a cognitive conjecture on why repetition has been so prominent in the arts from the Homeric epics through Duke Ellington and beyond. Artists have exploited repetition throughout the ages. The reason why is straightforward:\u003ci\u003e the brain finds the detection of repetition innately pleasurable. Play It Again, Sam\u003c\/i\u003e offers experimental evidence to support this claim.Introduction\u003cbr\u003e1 Same\/Except\u003cbr\u003e2 Rhyme in Poetry\u003cbr\u003e3 Rhyme in Music\u003cbr\u003e4 Same\/Except and the Ubiquitous Rule of Three\u003cbr\u003e5 Music’s Rule of Three\u003cbr\u003e6 Is Music Wallpaper?\u003cbr\u003e7 Meter and Repetition\u003cbr\u003e8 Repetition and Framing\u003cbr\u003e9 Repetition and Formulas\u003cbr\u003e10 Repetition and Galant\u003cbr\u003e11 Repetition and Jazz\u003cbr\u003e12 Repetition and Parallelism\u003cbr\u003e13 Repetition in Painting and Photographs\u003cbr\u003e14 - P4 = Parallelism, Priming, Prediction, and Pleasure\u003cbr\u003eAppendix 1\u003cbr\u003eAppendix 2\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eReferences\u003cbr\u003eIndex“A brilliant analysis of a major part of the pathos and pleasure in art, rhetoric, and music. \u003ci\u003ePlay It Again, Sam \u003c\/i\u003eis filled with deep and playful insight.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University; author of \u003ci\u003eThe Language Instinct\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Sense of Style\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“What makes \u003ci\u003ePlay It Again, Sam\u003c\/i\u003e so extraordinary is its demonstration of the ways that poetry, music, painting, and photography engender pleasure in their audiences by exploiting the ability of the brain to detect repetition. I look forward to adopting \u003ci\u003ethis book\u003c\/i\u003e as a required text in my classes in music appreciation and composition. But because Keyser has an uncanny ability to simplify complex ideas so that difficult material is easily understandable, we can all access a way of thinking about art that, to this reader, at least, has been a game changer.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e— George Darrah, Principal Drummer and Arranger, The Boston Pops Orchestra \u003c\/b\u003eSamuel Jay Keyser is a theoretical linguist. He is Peter de Florez Emeritus Professor of the Linguistics and Philosophy faculty, and former Associate Provost at MIT. He has authored numerous books and scientific publications and is Editor-in-Chief of the journal \u003ci\u003eLinguistic Inquiry\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also a jazz trombone player in the Boston area.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305284128997,"sku":"NP9780262552325","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262552325.jpg?v=1767734857","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/play-it-again-sam-isbn-9780262552325","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}