Sound and Affect

Judith Lochhead is professor of music history and theory at Stony Brook University. She is the author of Reconceiving Structure in Contemporary Music: New Tools in Music Theory and Analysis and coeditor of Music's Immanent Future: The Deleuzian Turn in Music Studies. Eduardo Mendieta is professor of philosophy and affiliate professor in the School of International Affairs at Pennsylvania State University. He is the coeditor of The Cambridge Habermas Lexicon. Stephen Decatur Smith is associate professor of music history and theory at Stony Brook University. His articles have appeared in Popular Music, the Journal of Music Theory, Contemporary Music Review, and Opera Quarterly.

“Lochhead, Mendieta, and Smith have assembled a powerful compendium of theoretical and historical essays on sound and affect. This volume represents a synthesis of three rapidly growing areas of new research: affect theory, sound studies, and philosophically inflected music studies. Sound and Affect will make a significant and lasting impact in many fields. It is the type of publication that will challenge current assumptions about method and stimulate the growth of new forms of inquiry.”

• PrefaceIntroduction Judith Lochhead, Eduardo Mendieta, and Stephen Decatur SmithPart 1. Sounding the PoliticalChapter 1. Waves of Moderation: The Sound of Sophrosyne in Ancient Greek and Neoliberal Times Robin JamesChapter 2. The Politics of Silence: Heidegger’s Black NotebooksAdam KnowlesPart 2. Affect, Music, HumanChapter 3. Sign, Affect, and Musicking before the Human Gary TomlinsonChapter 4. Human Beginnings and Music: Technology and Embodiment Roles Don IhdeChapter 5. The Life and Death of Daniel Barenboim James CurriePart 3. Voicings and SilencingsChapter 6. The Philosopher’s Voice: The Prosody of Logos Eduardo MendietaChapter 7. Late Capitalism, Affect, and the Algorithmic Self in Music Streaming Platforms Michael Birenbaum QuinteroPart 4. Affective ListeningsChapter 8. Music, Labor, and Technologies of Desire Martin ScherzingerChapter 9. Musical Affect, Autobiographical Memory, and Collective Individuation in Thomas Bernhard’s CorrectionChristopher HaworthPart 5. Temporalities of SoundingChapter 10. The “Sound” of Music: Sonic Agency and the Dialectic of Freedom and Constraint in Jazz Improvisation Lorenzo C. SimpsonChapter 11. Merleau-Ponty on Consciousness and Affect through the Temporal Movement of Music Jessica WiskusChapter 12. A. N. Whitehead, Feeling, and Music: On Some Potential Modifications to Affect Theory Ryan DohoneyPart 6. Theorizing the AffectionsChapter 13. Delivering Affect: Mersenne, Voice, and the Background of Jesuit Rhetorical Theory André de Oliveira RedwoodChapter 14. Mimesis and the Affective Ground of Baroque Representation Daniel Villegas VélezChapter 15. Affect and the Recording Devices of Seventeenth-Century Italy Emily WilbourneChapter 16. Immanuel Kant and the Downfall of the AffektenlehreTomás McAuleyAcknowledgmentsList of ContributorsBibliographyIndex