Music After Deleuze

ISBN-13: 9781441157027 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 208 str.

Edward Campbell

Opis

Music After Deleuze explores how Deleuzian concepts offer interesting ways of thinking about a wide range of musics. The concepts of difference, identity and repetition offer novel approaches to Western art music from Beethoven to Boulez and Bernhard Lang as well as jazz improvisation, popular and sacred music. The concepts of the 'rhizome', the 'assemblage' and the 'refrain' enable us to think of the specificity of musical works as the meeting of productive forces, for example in the contemporary opera of Dusapin and the experimental music theatre of Aperghis. The concepts of smooth and striated space form the starting point for musical and political reflections on pitch in Western and Eastern music. Deleuze's notion of time as multiple illumines the distinctive conceptions of musical time found in Debussy, Messiaen, Boulez, Carter and Grisey. Finally, the innovative semiotic theory forged in Deleuze-Guattarian philosophy offers valuable insights for a semiotics capable of engaging with the innovative, molecular music of Lachenmann, Aperghis and Levinas.

Recenzje

Edward Campbell shows how philosopher Gilles Deleuze, when contemplating music, can steer musicians productively away from their verbal comfort zones. Centring on the contact between Deleuze and Pierre Boulez, Dr Campbell explores and explains some particularly challenging ways of thinking about philosophical and musical modernity. Music after Deleuze proves to be both fascinating and open-ended, and it confirms that the on-going engagement between philosophy and music (non-Western or popular as much as Western and classical) continues to provoke and to intrigue. Arnold Whittall, Professor Emeritus of Music Theory & Analysis, King's College London, UK 20130412

Spis treści

AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Music, Difference and Repetition2. Producing New Music: Rhizomes, Assemblages and Refrains3. Rethinking Musical Pitch: The Smooth and the Striated4. Thinking Musical Time5. A Deleuzian Semiotics of MusicConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

O autorze

Edward Campbell is Lecturer in Music at the University of Aberdeen, UK.