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  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction: Reading the Air
  7. 1. Background Music of the Avant-Garde: The Quiet Boom of Erik Satie
  8. 2. The Sound of Embodied Security: Imaginary Landscapes of Ambient Music
  9. 3. Moving with the Rhythms of the City: Ambient Video Attunements
  10. 4. Soft Fascinations in Shallow Depth: Compositing Ambient Space
  11. 5. Subtractivism: Low-Affect Living with Ambient Cinema
  12. 6. Healing Style: Ambient Literature and the Aesthetics of Calm
  13. Conclusion
  14. Acknowledgments
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Film and Videography
  18. Discography
  19. Index
  20. About the Author

About the Author

Paul Roquet is a postdoctoral fellow in global media and film studies at Brown University.

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The University of Minnesota Press gratefully acknowledges support for the open-access edition of this book from the MIT Libraries.

An earlier version of chapter 2 was published as “Ambient Landscapes from Brian Eno to Tetsu Inoue,” Journal of Popular Music Studies 21, no. 4 (2009): 364–83. Portions of chapters 5 and 6 were previously published as “Ambient Literature and the Aesthetics of Calm: Mood Regulation in Contemporary Japanese Fiction,” Journal of Japanese Studies 35, no. 1 (Winter 2009): 87–111.

Copyright 2016 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota

Ambient Media: Japanese Atmospheres of Self is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).
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