Deep Refrains - Music, Philosophy, and the Ineffable

Informationen zum Autor Michael Gallope is associate professor in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, as well as affiliate faculty in the Department of American Studies and the program in Moving Image Studies. Klappentext Deep Refrains is a wide-ranging investigation of the philosophy of music. Michael Gallope asks what it means for music to "speak" when it is not saying anything in particular. To answer this question, he turns to the writings of some of the most revered thinkers of the twentieth century--Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno, Vladimir Jankelevitch, Gilles Deleuze, and Felix Guattari. For these theorists, Gallope argues, the paradox that music is both ineffable and yet harbors deep philosophical wisdoms is fertile ground for thinking outside of conceptual boundaries. It provides the lens for a utopian potentiality that inspires hope (Bloch), an ethical critique of modernity (Adorno), an exemplification of the ephemeral movement of lived time (Jankelevitch), and a sonic extension of the syncopated, contrapuntal rhythms of sense and social life (Deleuze and Guattari). Gallope argues that a philosophical engagement with music's ineffability rarely calls for silence or declarations of the unspeakable. Rather, it asks us to think through the ways in which the impact of music is made to address complex philosophical problems specific to the modern world.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Gallope
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9780226483696
• ISBN: 978-0-226-48369-6
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Music, MUSIC / History & Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, Philosophy: aesthetics, Literary studies: general, Music reviews & criticism, Music reviews and criticism