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Author Klein, Michael Leslie.

Title Music and the Crises of the Modern Subject.

Publication Info. [Place of publication not identified] : Indiana University Press, 2015.
©2015

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Musical Meaning and Interpretation
Musical meaning and interpretation.
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.
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, fiction, and back to music, Klein distills the kinds of meaning that we have been missing when we perform, listen to, think about, and write about music without the insights of Lacan and others into formulations of modern subjectivity.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981 -- Philosophy.
Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.
Philosophy.
Music -- Psychological aspects.
Music -- Psychological aspects.
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Musical analysis.
Musical analysis.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic book.
Other Form: Erscheint auch als: Druck-Ausgabe Klein, Michael L. Music and the Crises of the Modern Subject
ISBN 025301722X (electronic book)
9780253017222 (electronic book)
9780253017208
0253017203