The Conjectural Body
Gender, Race, and the Philosophy of Music
Seiten
2010
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-3902-8 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-3902-8 (ISBN)
Grounded in continental philosophy, The Conjectural Body: Gender, Race, and the Philosophy of Music uses feminist, critical race, and postcolonial theories to examine music, race, and gender as discourses that emerge and evolve with one another.. In the first section, author Robin James asks why philosophers commonly use music to explain embodied social identity and inequality. She looks at late twentieth-century postcolonial theory, Rousseau's early musical writings, and Kristeva's reading of Mozart and Schoenberg to develop a theory of the "conjectural body," arguing that this is the notion of embodiment that informs Western conceptions of raced, gendered, and resonating bodies. The second section addresses the ways in which norms about human bodily difference-such as gender and race-continue to ground serious and popular hierarchies well after twentieth and twenty-first century art and philosophy have deconstructed this binary. Reading Adorno's work on popular music through Irigaray's critique of commodification, James establishes and explains the feminization of popular music. She then locates this notion of the feminized popular in Nietzsche, and argues that he critiques Wagner by making an argument for the positive aesthetic (and epistemological) value of feminized popular music, such as Bizet and Italian opera. Following from Nietzsche, she argues that feminists ought and need to take "the popular" seriously, both as a domain of artistic and scholarly inquiry as well as a site of legitimate activism. The book concludes with an analysis of philosophy's continued hostility toward feminism, real-life women, and popular culture. While the study of gender, race, and popular culture has become a fixture in many areas of the academy, philosophy and musicology continue to resist attempts to take these objects as objects of serious academic study.
Robin James is assistant professor of philosophy at University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Part 1. Conjecture and Resonating Bodies Chapter 3 Chapter 1. On Popular Music in Postcolonial Theory Chapter 4 Chapter 2. Conjectural Histories, Conjectural Harmonies: On political and musical "nature" in Rousseau's early writings Chapter 5 Chapter 3. Conjecture and the Impossible Opera: From the Thought Specular to the Society of the Spectacle Part 6 Part 2. Fetishism, Abjection, and the Feminized Popular Chapter 7 Chapter 4. "Smells Like Booty": Pop music and the logic of abjection Chapter 8 Chapter 5. "What is it that my whole body really expects of music?": Nietzsche and the feminized popular Chapter 9 Epilogue
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 14.9.2010 |
---|---|
Reihe/Serie | Out Sources: Philosophy-Culture-Politics |
Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 162 x 240 mm |
Gewicht | 483 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie | |
Sozialwissenschaften | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7391-3902-9 / 0739139029 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7391-3902-8 / 9780739139028 |
Zustand | Neuware |
Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt? |
Mehr entdecken
aus dem Bereich
aus dem Bereich
Grundbegriffe, Harmonik, Formen, Instrumente
Buch | Softcover (2021)
Philipp Reclam (Verlag)
7,80 €
Jazz als Gegenkultur im westlichen Nachkriegsdeutschland
Buch | Hardcover (2024)
edition text + kritik (Verlag)
42,00 €
Professional Music, Musikarbeitsbuch
Buch | Softcover (2022)
Leu-Vlg Wolfgang Leupelt (Verlag)
34,00 €