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The Conjectural Body - Gender, Race, and the Philosophy of Music (Hardcover)
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The Conjectural Body - Gender, Race, and the Philosophy of Music (Hardcover)
Series: Out Sources: Philosophy-Culture-Politics
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Grounded in continental philosophy, The Conjectural Body: Gender,
Race, and the Philosophy of Music uses feminist, critical race, and
postcolonial theories to examine music, race, and gender as
discourses that emerge and evolve with one another.. In the first
section, author Robin James asks why philosophers commonly use
music to explain embodied social identity and inequality. She looks
at late twentieth-century postcolonial theory, Rousseau's early
musical writings, and Kristeva's reading of Mozart and Schoenberg
to develop a theory of the "conjectural body," arguing that this is
the notion of embodiment that informs Western conceptions of raced,
gendered, and resonating bodies. The second section addresses the
ways in which norms about human bodily difference-such as gender
and race-continue to ground serious and popular hierarchies well
after twentieth and twenty-first century art and philosophy have
deconstructed this binary. Reading Adorno's work on popular music
through Irigaray's critique of commodification, James establishes
and explains the feminization of popular music. She then locates
this notion of the feminized popular in Nietzsche, and argues that
he critiques Wagner by making an argument for the positive
aesthetic (and epistemological) value of feminized popular music,
such as Bizet and Italian opera. Following from Nietzsche, she
argues that feminists ought and need to take "the popular"
seriously, both as a domain of artistic and scholarly inquiry as
well as a site of legitimate activism. The book concludes with an
analysis of philosophy's continued hostility toward feminism,
real-life women, and popular culture. While the study of gender,
race, and popular culture has become a fixture in many areas of the
academy, philosophy and musicology continue to resist attempts to
take these objects as objects of serious academic study.
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