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A rich exploration of the meaning and consequences of Jacques Rancière's work in relation to music and the aesthetic The place of music in Rancière's thought has long been underestimated or unrecognised. Rancière and Music responds to this absence with a collection of 15 essays by scholars from a variety of music- and sound-related fields including an original Afterword by Rancière on the role of music in his thought and writing. Contributions engage closely with Rancière's existing commentary on music, its relationship to other arts in the aesthetic regime, revealed through detailed case studies around music, sound, and listening. Rancière's thought is explored along a number of music-historical trajectories, including Italian and German opera, Romantic and modernist music, Latin American and South African music, jazz, and contemporary popular music. Rancière's work is also set creatively in dialogue with other key contemporary thinkers including Adorno, Althusser, Badiou and Deleuze. João Pedro Cachopo is a Marie SkLodowska-Curie Fellow with a joint affiliation at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and the University of Chicago. Patrick Nickleson is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Cultural Studies at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. Chris Stover is a Research Fellow at the Ritmo Centre for Interdisciplinary Study in Rhythm Time and Motion and Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Musicology at the University of Oslo.
List of contents
Introduction
João Pedro Cachopo, Patrick Nickleson and Chris Stover
Section I. Music and Noise
1. Musique concrète and the Aesthetic Regime of Art
Loïc Bertrand
2. 'Rip it up and start again': Reconfigurations of the Audible in the Aesthetic Regime of the Arts
Daniel Frappier
3. A Lesson in Low Music
Patrick Nickleson
Section II. Politics of History
4. Wandering with Rancière: Sound and Structure under the Aesthetic Regim
Martin Kaltenecker
5. Staging Music in the Aesthetic Regime of Art: Rancière, Berlioz and the Bells of Harold en Italie
João Pedro Cachopo
6. Rancière on Music, Rancière's Non Music
Katharina Clausius
7. Coloured Opera and the Violence of Dis-Identification
William Fourie and Carina Venter
Section III. Politics of Interaction
8. Musical Politics in the Cuban Police Order
Kjetil Klette Bøhler
9. Rancière and Improvisation: Reading Contingency in Music and Politics
Dan DiPiero
10. Rancière's Affective Impropriety
Chris Stover
Section IV. Encounters and Challenges
11. Rancière, Resistance and the Problem of Commemorative Art: Music Displacing Violence Displacing Music
Sarah Collins
12. Stain.
Murray Dineen
13. On Shoemakers and Related Matters: Rancière and Badiou on Richard Wagner
Erik M. Vogt
14. Roll Over the Musical Boundaries: A Few Milestones for the Implementation of an Equal Method in Musicology
Danick Trottier
Afterword: A Distant Sound
Jacques Rancière
Works Cited
Index
About the author
João Pedro Cachopo is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow with a joint affiliation to the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and the University of Chicago Patrick Nickleson is Postdoctoral Researcher at Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario. Chris Stover is a Research Fellow at the RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Study of Rhythm, Time and Motion, University of Oslo
Summary
This collection explores Ranciere's thought along a number of music-historical trajectories, including Italian and German opera, Romantic and modernist music, Latin American and South African music, jazz, and contemporary popular music, and sets him in dialogue with key thinkers including Adorno, Althusser, Badiou andDeleuze.
