Music with Stanley Cavell in Mind

David LaRocca, Ph.D., is the author or contributing editor of seventeen books, including several from Bloomsbury. He edited Stanley Cavell’s Emerson’s Transcendental Etudes (2003) and Metacinema (2021). Earlier edited volumes are devoted to the philosophy of documentary film, war films, and the cinema of Charlie Kaufman. He has taught philosophy, rhetoric, and cinema and held visiting research or teaching positions in the United States at Binghamton University, Cornell University, Harvard University, Ithaca College, the New York Public Library, the School of Visual Arts, the State University of New York at Cortland, and Vanderbilt University. He served as Harvard University’s Sinclair Kennedy Fellow in the United Kingdom and, like Cavell before him, was honored with the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society. www.DavidLaRocca.org

Part 1: Measures
1. An Understanding with Music
Jean-Philippe Antoine, Paris 8 University, France

2. On Cavell as Player (in the Context of Twentieth Century Musical Culture)
John Harbison, Composer, USA

3. Impressions of Meaning in Cavell’s Life Out of Music
William Day, Le Moyne College, USA

Part 2: Registers

4. Music Discomposed Anew
Garry L. Hagberg, bard College, USA

5. With Cavell, Allan Bloom on Music
Richard Eldridge, Swarthmore College, USA

6. The Sound of Reality
Jocelyn Benoist, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France

Part 3: Pitch

7. Virtuosity and Voice: Streisand in Sync with Cavell
Garrett Stewart, University of Iowa, USA

8. Knowing in Feeling: Experiments in Modernism
Paul Standish, University College London, UK

9. Cage, Cavell, and Modernist Art
John Lysaker, Emory University, USA

Part 4: Tone

10. Wittgenstein, Spengler, Cavell and the Fate of Music
Eran Guter, Max Stern Jezreel Valley College, Israel

11. Punk Discomposed
David LaRocca, Cornell University, USA

12. What to Listen For
An Interview with Charles Bernstein