Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 662 g
Music from the Perspective of the Real
Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 662 g
Reihe: The Psychoanalysis and Popular Culture Series
ISBN: 978-0-367-32712-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
This book offers a new theory of music as a form of social bond analogous to language as it is understood according to the Lacanian orientation in psychoanalysis. It presents contemporary examples that look at how music has become both a powerful locus of discontent and a form of orientation.
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Professional Practice & Development
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Weitere Infos & Material
Series Editors’ Preface -- Preface -- -- Introduction: Fear of music -- Amusia -- Music and the love of the master -- The Marriage of Figaro and Freudian melophobia -- Dance and “condansation”: Che Guevara’s a-rhythmia -- Groundhog Day: the earworm and the love song -- From symptom to synthomy -- The audio unconscious -- Hank Williams’s cough -- From Speaking Beings to Talking Heads -- The Madness of Economic Realism -- Primal scream: dissonance and repetition -- Capitalism and psychosis I: the Nash equilibrium -- Michel Foucault and the beauty of the absolute -- Bach’s Little Fugue -- Decomposing the voice -- American Psycho and Phil Collins -- The Ride of the Valkyries -- Screamadelica -- Flower of hate: the lack in The Beatles -- The murder of John Lennon -- Echo -- Unlistenable -- The braindance of the hikikomori -- The three delusions -- Coda: The hum
