Music and the Crises of the Modern Subject (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Indiana University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2015
First published:	2015
Authors:	Michael L. Klein
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Paper over boards
Pages:	200
ISBN-13:	978-0-253-01720-8
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Western music, periods & styles > 20th century music Books > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General Books > Music > Western music, periods & styles > 20th century music Promotions
LSN:	0-253-01720-3
Barcode:	9780253017208

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