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Shoegaze vs Abstraction - What's the difference?

shoegaze | abstraction |

As nouns the difference between shoegaze and abstraction

is that shoegaze is (music) shoegazing, an introspective genre of alternative rock popular in the 1990s which made extensive use of guitar effects while abstraction is the act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away .

As a verb shoegaze

is (music) to perform in the shoegazing style.

shoegaze

English

Noun

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  • (music) Shoegazing, an introspective genre of alternative rock popular in the 1990s which made extensive use of guitar effects.
  • * 2011 , Courtney E. Smith, Record Collecting for Girls: Unleashing Your Inner Music Nerd, One Album at a Time , page 144,
    • Historically, it is filed by music critics under the shoegaze' genre. I suppose this is because the band used a lot of the same guitar tones as ' shoegaze outfits from the same time, but it was really a bit too psychedelic to fit the genre.
  • * 2013', Benjamin Halligan, ''3: '''Shoegaze as the Third Wave: Affective Psychedelic Noise, 1965-91'', Michael Goddard, Benjamin Halligan, Nicola Spelman (editors), ''Resonances: Noise and Contemporary Music , page 58,
    • Most of the releases from the Boo Radleys during their shoegaze' phase feature just such a baroque, as do ''Killing Time'' by Bleach (1992; with a prawn) and ''... x, y and z'' by Moose (1992; with a sunflower).In the same way that the image of the sheep is common for EDM releases at this time, the cat comes to typify ' shoegaze .
  • * 2014 , Alex Niven, Oasis' Definitely Maybe , page 44,
    • The shoegaze' influence in the early Oasis sound is just as pronounced as the debt to the grunge of ''Nevermind''. Although they were viewed as something of an anomaly within the ' shoegaze label Creation, Oasis were nevertheless a neo-psychedelic rock band with a taste for distorted guitars and classic sixties pop, so in fact they fitted in pretty well with the Creation house style.

    Verb

    (shoegaz)
  • (music) To perform in the shoegazing style.
  • *{{quote-book, 2004, Erik Morse, Spacemen 3 and the Birth of Spiritualized citation
    • , passage=Ever the pedestrian, Jason shoegazes to the side of his rhythm section, his body limp against a guitar and greased locks flowing down over his arched brow.}}

    abstraction

    English

    Noun

  • The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away.
  • * 1848 , , Principles of Political Economy with some of their Applications to Social Philosophy :
    • The cancelling of the debt would be no destruction of wealth, but a transfer of it: a wrongful abstraction of wealth from certain members of the community, for the profit of the government, or of the tax-payers.
  • # (euphemistic) The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining.
  • # (engineering) Removal of water from a river, lake, or aquifer.
  • A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life, as a hermit's abstraction ; the withdrawal from one's senses.
  • The act of focusing on one characteristic of an object rather than the object as a whole group of characteristics; the act of separating said qualities from the object or ideas.
  • * W. Hamilton, in Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic (1860), Lecture XXXV, page 474:
    • Abstraction is no positive act: it is simply the negative of attention.
    Abstraction is necessary for the classification of things into genera and species.
  • The act of comparing commonality between distinct objects and organizing using those similarities; the act of generalizing characteristics; the product of said generalization.
  • An idea or notion of an abstract or theoretical nature.
    • to fight for mere abstractions .
  • Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects; preoccupation.
  • (art) An abstract creation, or piece of art; qualities of artwork that are free from representational aspects.
  • (chemistry) A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
  • An idea of an unrealistic or visionary nature.
  • The result of mentally abstracting an idea; the results of said process.
  • (geology) The merging of two river valleys by the larger of the two deepening and widening so much so, as to assimilate the smaller.
  • (computing) Any generalization technique that ignores or hides details to capture some kind of commonality between different instances for the purpose of controlling the intellectual complexity of engineered systems, particularly software systems.
  • (computing) Any intellectual construct produced through the technique of abstraction.

    • Antonyms

    * (the act of generalization) specialization * (mentally abstracting) concretization

    Derived terms

    * abstractional * abstractionism * abstractionist * abstractive

    External links

    * * * * Glossary of Water Terms , American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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