The Sound of Zizek: Musicological Perspectives on Slavoj Zizek

ISBN-13: 9781433178986 / Angielski

Antonio Garcia; Rex Butler; Mauro Fosco Bertola

Opis

Over the last three decades Slavoj Zizek has become an iconic figure of intellectuel engage and his works have engendered ongoing reflection within as different academic disciplines as philosophy, literature or cultural, gender, postcolonial and film studies. But when it comes to music, things look different.

Spis treści

Mauro Fosco Bertola: Foreword: If Zizek Be the Food of Musicology - Mauro Fosco Bertola: Introduction: Slavoj Zizek's Aesthetics of Music. From Romanticism to Modernism - Carlo Lanfossi: Musicology's Second Death(s) - Amy Bauer: The Sublime Object of Music Analysis - Slavoj Zizek: C Major or E- Flat Minor? No, Thanks! Busoni's Faust- Allegory - Mauro Fosco Bertola: Post- Kantian Dreams. Kaija Saariaho's Operatic Ontology and Its Dreamscapes in L'amour de loin - Jelena Novak: Singing in the Age of Capitalist Realism. The Pervert's Guide to (Post)Opera - Samuel J. Wilson: Cage, Reich, and Morris: Process and Sonic Fetishism - Slavoj Zizek: Subjective Destitution in Art and Politics - Contributors.

O autorze

Mauro Fosco Bertola studied philosophy in Italy and musicology in Heidelberg. He is the author of Die List der Vergangenheit. Musikwissenschaft, Rundfunk und Deutschlandbezug in Italien, 1890-1945 (2014) as well as co-editor of Zizek and Music (2017) and An den Rändern des Lebens. Träume vom Sterben und Geborenwerden in den Künsten (2019). He is currently leading a DFG-funded project on the presence of dream in contemporary musical theatre at the University of Tübingen.