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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810189803321

Autore

Klein Michael Leslie

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2015

ISBN

0-253-01722-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (206 p.)

Collana

Musical Meaning and Interpretation

Disciplina

781.1/7

Soggetti

Music - Psychological aspects

Music - Philosophy and aesthetics

Musical analysis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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