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Peculiar Attunements - How Affect Theory Turned Musical (Hardcover)
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Peculiar Attunements - How Affect Theory Turned Musical (Hardcover)
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Peculiar Attunements places the recent turn to affect into
conversation with a parallel movement in European music theory of
the eighteenth century. During that time the affects—or passions,
as they were also called—formed a vital component of a mimetic
model of the arts. Eighteenth-century critics held that artworks
imitated or copied the natural world in order to produce copies of
the affects in their beholders. But music caused a problem for such
theories, since it wasn’t apparent that musical tones could
imitate anything with any dependability, beyond the rare
thunderclap or birdcall. Struggling to articulate how it was that
music managed to move its auditors without imitation, certain
theorists developed a new affect theory crafted especially for
music, postulating that music’s physical materiality as sound
vibrated the nerves of listeners and attuned them to the affects
through sympathetic resonance. This was a theory of affective
attunement that bypassed the entire structure of representation,
offering a non-discursive, corporeal alternative. It is a pendant
to contemporary theories of affect, and one from which they have
much to learn. Inflecting our current intellectual moment through
eighteenth-century music theory and aesthetics, this book offers a
reassessment of affect theory’s common systems and processes. It
offers a new way of thinking through affect dialectically, drawing
attention to patterns and problems in affect theory that we have
been given to repeating. Finally, taking a cue from
eighteenth-century theory, it gives renewed attention to the
objects that generate affects in subjects.
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