Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language write by John T. Hamilton. This book was released on 2013. Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language
Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language write by John T Hamilton. This book was released on 2013-05-14. Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. John T. Hamilton investigates how literary, philosophical, and psychological treatments of music and madness challenge the limits of representation, thereby creating a crisis of language. He particularly focuses on the decidedly autobiographical impulse of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, where musical experience and mental disturbance disrupt the expression of referential thought, illuminating the irreducible aspects of the self before language can work them back into a discursive system. The study begins in the 1750s with Diderot's "Neveu de Rameau," and situates that text in relation to Rousseau's reflections on the voice and the burgeoning discipline of musical aesthetics. Hamilton then traces the linkage of music and madness that courses through the work of Herder, Hegel, Wackenroder, and Kleist before turning his attention to E. T. A. Hoffmann, whose writings of the first decades of the nineteenth century accumulate and qualify preceding traditions. Throughout his analysis, Hamilton considers the particular representations that link music and madness, exploring underlying motives, preconceptions, and ideological premises that facilitate the association of these two experiences.
The Music Between Us
The Music Between Us - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Music Between Us write by Kathleen Marie Higgins. This book was released on 2012-06. The Music Between Us available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A commentary on the communicative universality of music citing real-world examples from rituals, education, work, and healing.
The Operatic Archive
The Operatic Archive - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Operatic Archive write by Colleen Renihan. This book was released on 2020-04-03. The Operatic Archive available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Operatic Archive: American Opera as History extends the growing interdisciplinary conversation in opera studies by drawing on new research in performance studies and the philosophy of history. Moving beyond traditional aesthetic conceptions of opera, this book argues for opera’s powerful potential for historical impact and engagement in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century works by American composers. Considering opera’s ability to serve as a vehicle for memory, historical experience, affect, presence, and the historical sublime, this volume demonstrates how opera’s ability to represent and evoke historical events and historical experience differs fundamentally from the representations and recreations of other modes (specifically, literary and dramatic representations). Building on the work of performance scholars such as Joseph Roach, Rebecca Schneider, and Diana Taylor, and in consultation with recent debates in the philosophy of history, the book will be of interest to a wide range of scholars and researchers, particularly those working in the areas of opera studies and performance studies.
The Rock Music Imagination
The Rock Music Imagination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rock Music Imagination write by Robert McParland. This book was released on 2019-08-09. The Rock Music Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Rock Music Imagination is an exploration of rock artists in their social and artistic contexts, particularly between 1964 and 1980, and of rock music in relation to literature, that is, creative expression, fantastic imagination, and contemporary fiction about rock. Robert McParland analyzes how rock music touches our imaginative lives by looking at themes that appear in classic rock music: freedom and liberation, utopia and dystopia, community, rebellion, the outsider, the quest for transcendence, monstrosity, erotic and spiritual love, imaginative vision, and mystery. The Rock Music Imagination explores blues imagination, countercultural dreams of utopia, rock’s critiques of society and images of dystopia, rock’s inheritance from romanticism, science fiction and mythic imagination in progressive rock, and rock’s global reach and potential to provide hope and humanitarian assistance.
