Listening to the Unconscious

Adventures in Popular Music and Psychoanalysis

AvKenneth Smith,Stephen Overy

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

What happens in our unconscious minds when we listen to, produce or perform popular music? The Unconscious – a much misunderstood concept from philosophy and psychology – works through human subjects as we produce music and can be traced through the music we engage with. Through a new collaboration between music theorist and philosopher, Smith and Overy present the long history of the unconscious and its related concepts, working systematically through philosophers such as Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, psychoanalysts such as Freud and Lacan, to theorists such as Deleuze and Kristeva. The theories offered are vital to follow the psychological complexity of popular music, demonstrated through close readings of individual songs, albums, artists, genres, and popular music practices. Among countless artists, Listening to the Unconscious draws from Prince to Sufjan Stevens, from Robyn to Xiu Xiu, from Joanna Newsom to Arcade Fire, from PJ Harvey to LCD Sound System, each of whom offer exciting inroads into the fascinating worlds of our unconscious musical minds. And in return, theories of the unconscious can perhaps takes us deeper into the heart of popular music.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-02-23
Mått:152 x 228 x 22 mm
Vikt:420 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781501368462

Utforska kategorier

Musikvetenskap inom Kultur
Populärmusik inom Kultur
Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Kenneth Smith is Professor of music at the University of Liverpool, UK, and President of the Society for Music Analysis. He is the author of Skryabin, Philosophy and the Music of Desire (2017) and Desire in Chromatic Harmony (2020) and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis (2018). Stephen Overy is Lecturer in philosophy at Newcastle University, UK. He specialises in philosophy of the unconscious and desire, situating the work of a line of thinkers from Kant to Deleuze in relation to its implications for materialism.

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Exploring how conscious and unconscious states of mind are channeled through musical expression, Kenneth Smith and Stephen Overy collaborate here to offer post-Freudian and post-Lacanian readings of popular songs. With clear reference to psychoanalytic concepts, their analytic applications reveal remarkable ways in which states of being emerge through expressive musical strategies. Listening to the Unconscious will reward readers with persuasive and stimulating reflections on how music channels the very core of human experience.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction1. Charting Three Freudian Hypotheses with Pop Music: the economic, the topographic, the structural2. Freud, Music, and the Psychological Condition3. Bright Eyes (and friends) and the Antlers Meet Jacques Lacan4. Phallocentrism, Sexuation and the Chora, from Lacan to Kristeva; Gaga to Björk5. The Death Drive and Unconscious Production6. “Do you want to be the ebb of this great tide?” Lacan, Freud, Nietzsche, Deleuze, and “Joy in Repetition”: Prince and LCD Soundsystem7. S & M, & Pop Perversion8. Polly Jean Harvey asks,“Is this desire [enough]?”BibliographyIndex