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Music and Belonging Between Revolution and Restoration
Contributor(s): Waltham-Smith, Naomi (Author)

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 ISBN: 019066200X     ISBN-13: 9780190662004
Publisher: Oxford University Press
OUR PRICE: $93.10  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: July 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Music | Philosophy & Social Aspects
- Music | Genres & Styles - Classical
- Music | History & Criticism - General
Dewey: 780.9
LCCN: 2017021505
Physical Information: 1" H x 6.3" W x 9.4" L (1.14 lbs) 280 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index
Review Citations: Choice 02/01/2018
 
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In what ways is music implicated in the politics of belonging? How is the proper at stake in listening? What role does the ear play in forming a sense of community? Music and Belonging argues that music, at the level of style and form, produces certain modes of listening that in turn reveal
the conditions of belonging. Specifically, listening shows the intimacy between two senses of belonging: belonging to a community is predicated on the possession of a particular property or capacity.
Somewhat counter-intuitively, Waltham-Smith suggests that this relation between belonging-as-membership and belonging-as-ownership manifests itself with particular clarity and rigor at the very heart of the Austro-German canon, in the instrumental music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Music and
Belonging provocatively brings recent European philosophy into contact with the renewed music-theoretical interest in Formenlehre, presenting close analyses to show how we might return to this much-discussed repertoire to mine it for fresh insights.
The book's theoretical landscape offers a radical update to Adornian-inspired scholarship, working through debates over relationality, community, and friendship between Derrida, Nancy, Agamben, Badiou, and Malabou. Borrowing the deconstructive strategies of closely reading canonical texts to the
point of their unraveling, the book teases out a new politics of listening from processes of repetition and liquidation, from harmonic suppressions and even from trills. What emerges is the enduring political significance of listening to this music in an era of heightened social exclusion under
neoliberalism.
 
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