Music and the Crises of the Modern Subject

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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Departing from the traditional German school of music theorists, Michael Klein injects a unique French critical theory perspective into the framework of music and meaning. Using primarily Lacanian notions of the symptom, that unnamable jouissance located in the unconscious, and the registers of subjectivity (the Imaginary, the Symbolic Order, and the Real), Klein explores how we understand music as both an artistic form created by "the subject" and an artistic expression of a culture that imposes its history on this modern subject. By creatively navigating from critical theory to music, film, fiction, and back to music, Klein distills the kinds of meaning that we have been missing when we perform, listen to, think about, and write about music without the insights of Lacan and others into formulations of modern subjectivity.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-07-06
Mått156 x 235 x 22 mm
Vikt476 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieIndiana University Press (IPS)
Antal sidor200
FörlagIndiana University Press
ISBN9780253017208

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AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Music and the Symptom2. The Acoustic Mirror as Formative of Auditory Pleasure and Fantasy: Chopin's Berceuse, Brahms's Romanze, and Saariaho's "Parfum de l'instant"3. Debussy and the Three Machines of the Proustian Narrative4. Chopin Dreams: the Mazurka in C# Minor as SinthomeIntermezzo: On Agency5. Postmodern Quotation, the Signifying Chain, and the Erasure of History6. Lutosławski, Molar and MolecularWorks CitedIndex

As a work of music theory, Music and the Crises of the Modern Subject represents a unique aesthetic, semiotic, and hermeneutic approach more commonly found in musicology. It takes advantage of every opportunity to challenge music theory's comfortable obsession with closed systems of analysis. . . . Klein is clearly one of today's leading scholars of musical narrative and subjectivity.(Notes) It is a consequence of the richness of Michael Klein's Music and the Crises of the Modern Subject that we are able to trope endlessly upon it, to spin out our own arabesques of musical thought. If the contexts that I have presented above help in any way to ensure that this precious book will be widely read and integrated into one's work as a researcher, teacher, and musician, then they will have served their purpose.(Music Theory Spectrum) Klein (Temple Univ.) uses the theoretical frameworks of recent French critical theory, notably the thought of Jacques Lacan, to build a bridge between poststructural criticism and music. . . Highly recommended.(Choice)