Music and the crises of the modern subject / Michael L. Klein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klein, Michael Leslie, author.

Series:

Musical meaning and interpretation.

Musical Meaning and Interpretation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Psychological aspects.

Music.

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Musical analysis.

Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981--Philosophy.

Lacan, Jacques.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana ; Indianapolis, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Music and the symptom

The acoustic mirror as formative of auditory pleasure and fantasy : Chopin's Berceuse, Brahms's Romanze, and Saariaho's "Parfum de l'instant"

Debussy and the three machines of the Proustian narrative

Chopin dreams : the Mazurka in C♯ minor as sinthome

Intermezzo : on agency

Postmodern quotation, the signifying chain, and the erasure of history

Lutoslawski, molar and molecular.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253017222

025301722X

OCLC:

911046023