Departing from the traditional German school of music theorists, Michael Klein injects a unique French critical theory perspective into the framework of music and meaning. Using primarily Lacanian notions of the symptom, that unnamable jouissance located in the unconscious, and the registers of subjectivity (the Imaginary, the Symbolic Order, and the Real), Klein explores how we understand music as both an artistic form created by "the subject" and an artistic expression of a culture that imposes its history on this modern subject. By creatively navigating from critical theory to music, film, fiction, and back to music, Klein distills the kinds of meaning that we have been missing when we perform, listen to, think about, and write about music without the insights of Lacan and others into formulations of modern subjectivity.

Music and the Crises of the Modern Subject (Musical Meaning and Interpretation)

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Klein, Michael L.

MCCRELESS, Patrick

Music

Indiana University Press

"The outstanding originality of this book lies in the detail and perspicuity with which interrelations are traced between texts, it even seems that relations sometimes work backwards. Above all, this book does not offer a ‘theory of intertextuality.’ Rather, it is a many-sided survey of the topic, open-ended and truthful. It is fresh and inspirational." ―Raymond Monelle, Reader in Music at the University of Edinburgh and author of Linguistics and Semiotics in Music
Intertextuality in Western Art Music provides an interdisciplinary approach to the questions of music and meaning, using the approaches of Barthes, Foucault, Eco, Derrida, Lévi-Strauss, and others. Drawing on research in aesthetics, hermeneutics, semiotics, narrativity, analysis, and musicology, Klein argues that each musical text is part of a cultural network of texts that code the ways we make sense of music.

Intertextuality in Western Art Music (Musical Meaning and Interpretation)

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Music and the Crises of the Modern Subject (Musical Meaning and Interpretation)

Intertextuality in Western Art Music (Musical Meaning and Interpretation)