Music and the Crises of the Modern Subject

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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 subj...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Klein, Michael L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Indiana University Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Lacan, Jacques, > 1901-1981.
Lacan, Jacques, > 1901-1981 > Philosophy.
Philosophy.
Musical analysis.
Music > Psychological aspects.
Music > Philosophy and aesthetics.
MUSIC > Instruction & Study > Theory.
Analyse musicale.
Musique > Philosophie et esthetique.
Musique > Aspect psychologique.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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