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Composing the Modern Subject: Four String Quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Composing the Modern Subject: Four String Quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Since the publication of Solomon Volkov's disputed memoirs of
Dmitri Shostakovich, the composer and his music has been subject to
heated debate concerning how the musical meaning of his works can
be understood in relationship to the composer's life within the
Soviet State. While much ink has been spilled, very little work has
attempted to define how Shostakovich's music has remained so
arresting not only to those within the Soviet culture, but also to
Western audiences - even though such audiences are often largely
ignorant of the compositional context or even the biography of the
composer. This book offers a useful corrective: setting aside
biographically grounded and traditional analytical modes of
explication, Reichardt uncovers and explores the musical
ambiguities of four of the composer's middle string quartets,
especially those ambiguities located in moments of rupture within
the musical structure. The music is constantly collapsing,
reversing, inverting and denying its own structural imperatives.
Reichardt argues that such confrontation of the musical language
with itself, though perhaps interpretable as Shostakovich's own
unique version of double-speak, also poignantly articulates the
fractured state of a more general form of modern subjectivity.
Reichardt employs the framework of Lacanian psychoanalysis to offer
a cogent explanation of this connection between disruptive musical
process and modern subjectivity. The ruptures of Shostakovich's
music become symptoms of the pathologies at the core of modern
subjectivity. These symptoms, in turn, relate to the Lacanian
concept of the real, which is the empty kernel around which the
modern subject constructs reality. This framework proves invaluable
in developing a powerful, original hermeneutic understanding of the
music. Read through the lens of the real, the riddles written into
the quartets reveal the arbitrary and contingent state of the
musical subject's constructed reality, reflecting pathologies ende
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