Phantom Limbs : On Musical Bodies / Peter Szendy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Szendy, Peter, Author.

Contributor:

Bishop, Will

Standardized Title:

Membres fantômes. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Human body in music.

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The prostheses Peter Szendy explores—those peculiar artifacts known as musical instruments—are not only technical devices but also bodies that live a strange phantom life, as uncanny as a sixth finger or a third lung. The musicological impulse to inventory those bodies that produce sound is called into question here. In Szendy’s hands, its respectable corpus of scholarship is read aslant, so as to tease out what it usually prefers to hide: hybrids and grafts produced by active fictions, monsters, and chimera awaiting the opportunity to be embodied. Beyond these singular bodies that music composes and disposes there lies the figure of a collective “social” body ready to emerge amid an innervated apparatus that operates at a distance, telepathically. Phantom Limbs touches on bodies of all shapes and sizes that haunt the edges of music’s conceptualizations. Music continually reinvents such bodies and reconvenes them in new collective formations. It is their dynamics and crystallizations that Szendy auscultates on a motley corpus that includes Bach, Diderot, Berlioz, Eisenstein, Disney, and Monk.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

Training

Chapter 1 Interpreting Bodies

Chapter 2 Effictions

Chapter 3 Organologics (1): The Erasure of Bodies

Chapter 4 Touch-ups, or The Return of Bodies

Chapter 5 Idiotisms, or The Dialect of Bodies

Chapter 6 Monk, a Legend

Chapter 7 Traces of Fingers

Chapter 8 Digital Rhetoric

Chapter 9 Ablations and Grafts (Too Many Fingers)

Chapter 10 Romantic Fingers (System of Touch)

Chapter 11 Feet

Chapter 12 Joyful Tropiques (Evolution, Revolutions)

Chapter 13 Two Dispatches (One Fictive and the Other Dreamed Up)

Chapter 14 Organologics (2): Autophony

Chapter 15 Genesis (1): Ocular Harpsichord, Organ of Flavors

Chapter 16 Telepathy

Chapter 17 Scruples (Clones and Stand-ins)

Chapter 18 Conducting (Seen from the Back)

Chapter 19 Genesis (2): Fantasia, or “Plasmaticity”

Chapter 20 Touching from Afar

Chapter 21 Organologics (3): Areality

Chapter 22 Bodies Electric

Chapter 23 Mass Formations

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Notes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

0-8232-6709-1

0-8232-7230-3

0-8232-6708-3

OCLC:

922451535