Listening awry : music and alterity in German culture / David Schwarz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schwarz, David, 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Psychological aspects.

Music.

Music--Germany--History and criticism.

Other (Philosophy).

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In his first book, Listening Subjects, David Schwarz succeeded in fusing post-Lacanian psychoanalytic, musical-theoretical, and musical-historical perspectives. In Listening Awry, he expands his project to "tell a story of historical modernism writ large"-how German music spanning two centuries refracts changes in society and culture, as well as the impacts of concepts introduced by psychoanalysis. Schwarz shows how post-Lacanian psychoanalysis can be applied to ideological interpellation that connects psychoanalysis to culture and how music theory can ground these considerations in precise de

Contents:

The rise of the conductor and the missing one

Franz Schubert's "die Stadt" and sublime (dis)pleasure

Music and the birth of psychoanalysis : Anton Webern's opus 6, no. 4

Left! right! left! right! music, bodies, fascism

Closing the wound : Parsifal by Richard Wagner and Hans-Jurgen Syberberg.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-211) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-9657-8

OCLC:

476120143