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Music After Deleuze
Author(s): Edward Campbell (Author)
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
- Publication Date: 7 Nov. 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 204 pages
- ISBN-10: 1441157026
- ISBN-13: 9781441157027
Book Description
Music After Deleuze explores how Deleuzian concepts offer interesting ways of thinking about a wide range of musics. The concepts of difference, identity and repetition offer novel approaches to Western art music from Beethoven to Boulez and Bernhard Lang as well as jazz improvisation, popular and sacred music. The concepts of the ‘rhizome’, the ‘assemblage’ and the ‘refrain’ enable us to think of the specificity of musical works as the meeting of productive forces, for example in the contemporary opera of Dusapin and the experimental music theatre of Aperghis. The concepts of smooth and striated space form the starting point for musical and political reflections on pitch in Western and Eastern music. Deleuze’s notion of time as multiple illumines the distinctive conceptions of musical time found in Debussy, Messiaen, Boulez, Carter and Grisey. Finally, the innovative semiotic theory forged in Deleuze-Guattarian philosophy offers valuable insights for a semiotics capable of engaging with the innovative, molecular music of Lachenmann, Aperghis and Levinas.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Edward Campbell shows how philosopher Gilles Deleuze, when contemplating music, can steer musicians productively away from their verbal comfort zones. Centring on the contact between Deleuze and Pierre Boulez, Dr Campbell explores and explains some particularly challenging ways of thinking about philosophical and musical modernity. Music after Deleuze proves to be both fascinating and open-ended, and it confirms that the on-going engagement between philosophy and music (non-Western or popular as much as Western and classical) continues to provoke and to intrigue. –Arnold Whittall, Professor Emeritus of Music Theory & Analysis, King’s College London, UK
Ranging from music close to Deleuze’s own interests to musics much further away, this concise and useful introduction will be of much benefit, as much to Deleuzians interested in what music might reveal about Deleuze as to musicians keen to discover what Deleuze might have to tell them about music. –Martin Iddon, Professor of Music and Aesthetics, University of Leeds, UK
Edward Campbell’s
Music after Deleuze is much more than a primer or introduction. Instead of laboriously dissecting the philosopher’s work or providing complex theoretical commentary, Campbell explains key Deleuzian concepts in clear, accessible language and uses them to think about music in fundamentally new ways. The book covers a great diversity of musical styles and genres, from popular and jazz through the canonic classical repertoire to non-Western and avant-garde, and in each of these areas, Campbell proves an engaging, perceptive and authoritative guide. Offering fresh and illuminating insights at every turn, Music after Deleuze issues a challenge to received wisdom and conventional thinking and presents a way for music studies to revitalise itself. –Björn Heile, Senior Lecturer in Music, University of Glasgow, UKAbout the Author
Edward Campbell is Lecturer in Music at the University of Aberdeen, UK.
