Featuring articles by musicologists, philosophers, composers and even lawyers this special issue addresses the topic of Slavoj Žižek’s music related reflections from a broad range of perspectives, and aims to stimulate a fresh and fruitful discussion of music. It also includes two previously unpublished articles on music by Žižek himself.

We wish you a pleasant reading!

TABLE OF CONTENTS (Find links to papers bellow)

INTRODUCTION

You only get it twice: Foreword(s) / R. Butler; M.F. Bertola -1-

METAPHYSICS, PLEASE!

Ontological Incompleteness and Music by Slavoj Žižek / V.J. Aguiar -9-

The Trouble with the Beekeeper. Hans Werner Henze’s ›Aristaeus‹ (2003) or: Operatic Metaphysics after Humanism / M.F. Bertola -16-

MUSIC ANALYSIS THROUGH ŽIŽEK’S EYES

“There is No Such Thing as an Interdisciplinary Relationship”: A Žižekian Critique of  Postmodern Music Analysis / R. Day -53-

The ‘Subject Supposed to Expect’: Expectation, Detection and the Enjoyment of Music Analysis / M. Summerfield -75-

The Sinthome in Instrumental Music: The Case of Schubert / C. Tarrant -95-

PERFORMANCE, LISTENING AND… COPYRIGHT

The Three Lacanian Registers of Musical Performance / R. Butler -118-

Focused Listening: The Aesthetics of Parallax / J. Wierzbicki -146-

Enjoy your culture! / M. McLennan -166-

JAZZ & EXPERIMENTAL

Retroactive Temporality. The Logic of Jazz Improvisation read through Žižek’s Hegel / D.M. Feige -189-

The Subject of Music as Subject of Excess and Emergence: Resonances and Divergences between Slavoj Žižek and Björk Guðmundsdóttir / J. Melançon; A. Carpenter -203-

THE COMPOSER’S VOICE

Anthony’s Death: Opera under the Condition of Žižek / K. Goyós -229-

POLEMICS

Say No to Lacanian Musicology: A Review of Misnomers / R. Smethurst -248-

ŽIŽEK SPEAKS!

My Favorite Classics / S. Žižek -271-

Void and Excess in Music / S. Žižek -280-

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