Beyond Structural Listening? - Postmodern Modes of Hearing

by Dell'Antonio, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780520237575
• ISBN10: 0520237579
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

In a highly influential essay, Rose Rosengard Subotnik critiques "structural listening" as an attempt to situate musical meaning solely within the unfolding of the musical structure itself. The authors of this volume, prominent young music historians and theorists writing on repertories ranging from Beethoven to MTV, take up Subotnik's challenge in what is likely to be one of musical scholarship's intellectual touchstones for many years to come. Original, innovative, and sophisticated, their essays explore not only the implications of the "structural listening" model but also the alternative listening strategies that have developed in specific communities, often in response to twentieth-century Western music.

Table of Contents

PREFACE	vii
Introduction: Beyond Structural Listening?
Andrew Dell'Antonio	1	(12)
1. The Disciplined Subject of Musical Analysis
Fred Everett Maus	13	(31)
2. Musical Virtues
Mitchell Morris	44	(26)
3. The Chosen One's Choice
Tamara Levitz	70	(39)
4. Beethoven Antihero: Sex, Violence, and the Aesthetics of Failure, or Listening to the Ninth Symphony as Postmodern Sublime
Robert Fink	109	(45)
5. Passion/Mirrors (A Passion for the Violent Ineffable: Modernist Music and the Angel/In the Hall of Mirrors)
Paul Attinello	154	(19)
6. Uncertainty, Disorientation, and Loss as Responses to Musical Structure
Joseph Dubiel	173	(28)
7. Collective Listening: Postmodern Critical Processes and MTV
Andrew Dell'Antonio	201	(32)
8. One Bar in Eight: Debussy and the Death of Description
Elisabeth Le Guin	233	(19)
9. The Return of the Aesthetic: Musical Formalism and Its Place in Political Critique
Martin Scherzinger	252	(27)
Afterword: Toward the Next Paradigm of Musical Scholarship
Rose Rosengard Subotnik	279	(24)
BIBLIOGRAPHY	303	(16)
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS	319	(4)
INDEX	323