Music with Stanley Cavell in Mind

David LaRocca, Ph.D., is the author or contributing editor of twenty books, including several from Bloomsbury. He edited Stanley Cavell’s Emerson’s Transcendental Etudes (2003) and Metacinema (2021). Earlier edited volumes are devoted to the philosophy of documentary film, war films, and the cinema of Charlie Kaufman. He has taught philosophy, rhetoric, and cinema and held visiting research or teaching positions in the United States at Binghamton University, Cornell University, Harvard University, Ithaca College, the New York Public Library, the School of Visual Arts, the State University of New York at Cortland, and Vanderbilt University. He served as Harvard University’s Sinclair Kennedy Fellow in the United Kingdom and, like Cavell before him, was honored with the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society. www.DavidLaRocca.org

• Overture: In Walked StanleyCharles Bernstein, University of Pennsylvania, USAPrelude: Sounds of PhilosophyDavid LaRocca, Cornell University, USAMovement I / Measures1. Critical Listening: An Understanding of Cavell's "An Understanding with Music"Jean-Philippe Antoine, Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis, France2 Impressions of Meaning in Cavell’s Life Out of MusicWilliam Day, Le Moyne College, USA3. Cavell on Music: As Performer, as WriterJohn Harbison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USAMovement II / Registers4. "A Voice Deep Inside": Cavell, Streisand, and the Reach of Song's Inner SpeechGarrett Stewart, University of Iowa, USA 5. Cavell as Halted Traveler: The Experience of MusicRichard Eldridge, Swarthmore College, USA6. The Sound of RealityJocelyn Benoist, Université of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, FranceMovement III / Recitatives7. Something Called Perfect Pitch: Cavell and the Calling of Ordinary Language to MindPaul Standish, University College London Institute of Education , UK8. Understanding Music, Understanding Persons: Cavell and the Necessity of Intentional ContentGarry L. Hagberg, Bard College, USA9. Punk Discomposed: Staging Sincerity and Fraudulence David LaRocca, Cornell University, USA Movement IV / Intervals10. Listening In: Cavell, Krenek, Cage, Reich at the Limits of Musical MeaningKevin C. Karnes, Emory University, USA, and John T. Lysaker, Emory University, USA11. Cavell's Odd Couple: Schoenberg and Wittgenstein Eran Guter, Max Stern Jezreel Valley College, Israel12. Words Sing: Wittgenstein, Cage, and Cavell on the Poetics of Language and MusicGordon C. F. Bearn, Lehigh University, USACoda: Out Waltzed StanleyCharles Bernstein, University of Pennsylvania, USAAcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex

A collection of exciting new essays by philosophers and practitioners of music in the full breadth of its range of art and thought; an exemplary display of versality and insight.