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 It also includes two previously unpublished articles on music by Žižek himself.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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Articles
Rex Buttler, Mauro Fosco Bertola
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Vinícius Jonas de Aguiar
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Mauro Fosco Bertola
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Rebecca Day
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Mark Summerfield
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Christopher Tarrant
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Rex Butler
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James Wierzbicki
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M. McLennan
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Daniel Martin Feige
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Jérôme Melançon, Alexander Carpenter
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Kharálampos Goyós
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Reilly Smethurst
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Slavoj Žižek
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Slavoj Žižek
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