James Currie
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9780226751832
- eISBN:
- 9780226758152
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226758152.003.0006
- Subject:
- Music, Philosophy of Music
Through a micrological and at times deconstructive reading of a public lecture given by the conductor Daniel Barenboim, this essay seeks to enact a critique of professionalism (at large) and in the ...
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Through a micrological and at times deconstructive reading of a public lecture given by the conductor Daniel Barenboim, this essay seeks to enact a critique of professionalism (at large) and in the terrain of academic music studies (specifically). It does this by means of formulating a notion entitled musical life, which is strongly resonant with aesthetic notions of affective intensity, as found (most obviously) in the work of Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, and Elizabeth Grosz, but also (inadvertently) in some of the conceptualizations of Barenboim himself—particularly those that I group together under the aegis of the term sonic gravity. The argument takes turns through aspects of post-humanist thinking, psychoanalysis, and the philosophy of comedy, and speculates as to whether the moment when academia as a way of life—of a life worth living—may, in the pervasively neoliberal ethos of the contemporary university, have irrevocably passed.Less
Through a micrological and at times deconstructive reading of a public lecture given by the conductor Daniel Barenboim, this essay seeks to enact a critique of professionalism (at large) and in the terrain of academic music studies (specifically). It does this by means of formulating a notion entitled musical life, which is strongly resonant with aesthetic notions of affective intensity, as found (most obviously) in the work of Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, and Elizabeth Grosz, but also (inadvertently) in some of the conceptualizations of Barenboim himself—particularly those that I group together under the aegis of the term sonic gravity. The argument takes turns through aspects of post-humanist thinking, psychoanalysis, and the philosophy of comedy, and speculates as to whether the moment when academia as a way of life—of a life worth living—may, in the pervasively neoliberal ethos of the contemporary university, have irrevocably passed.
Anthony Welch
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300178869
- eISBN:
- 9780300188998
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300178869.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
This book offers a close survey of the changing audiences, modes of reading, and cultural expectations that shaped epic writing in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. According to the book, the ...
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This book offers a close survey of the changing audiences, modes of reading, and cultural expectations that shaped epic writing in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. According to the book, the theory and practice of epic poetry in this period—including little-known attempts by many epic poets to have their work orally recited or set to music—must be understood in the context of Renaissance musical humanism. This book's approach leads to a fresh perspective on a literary culture that stood on the brink of a new relationship with antiquity and on the history of music in the early modern era.Less
This book offers a close survey of the changing audiences, modes of reading, and cultural expectations that shaped epic writing in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. According to the book, the theory and practice of epic poetry in this period—including little-known attempts by many epic poets to have their work orally recited or set to music—must be understood in the context of Renaissance musical humanism. This book's approach leads to a fresh perspective on a literary culture that stood on the brink of a new relationship with antiquity and on the history of music in the early modern era.
