Kenneth Smith, Stephen Overy

Listening to the Unconscious (eBook, PDF)

Adventures in Popular Music and Psychoanalysis

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

What happens in our unconscious minds when we listen to, produce or perform popular music? The Unconscious - a much misunderstood concept from philosophy and psychology - works through human subjects as we produce music and can be traced through the music we engage with. Through a new collaboration between music theorist and philosopher, Smith and Overy present the long history of the unconscious and its related concepts, working systematically through philosophers such as Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, psychoanalysts such as Freud and Lacan, to theorists such as Deleuze and Kristeva. The theories offered are vital to follow the psychological complexity of popular music, demonstrated through close readings of individual songs, albums, artists, genres, and popular music practices. Among countless artists, Listening to the Unconscious draws from Prince to Sufjan Stevens, from Robyn to Xiu Xiu, from Joanna Newsom to Arcade Fire, from PJ Harvey to LCD Sound System, each of whom offer exciting inroads into the fascinating worlds of our unconscious musical minds. And in return, theories of the unconscious can perhaps takes us deeper into the heart of popular music.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501368486
• Artikelnr.: 66444429

Autorenporträt

Kenneth Smith is Professor of music at the University of Liverpool, UK, and President of the Society for Music Analysis. He is the author of Skryabin, Philosophy and the Music of Desire (2017) and Desire in Chromatic Harmony (2020) and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis (2018).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Charting Three Freudian Hypotheses with Pop Music: the economic, the
topographic, the structural
2. Freud, Music, and the Psychological Condition
3. Bright Eyes (and friends) and the Antlers Meet Jacques Lacan
4. Phallocentrism, Sexuation and the Chora, from Lacan to Kristeva; Gaga to
Björk
5. The Death Drive and Unconscious Production
6. "Do you want to be the ebb of this great tide?" Lacan, Freud, Nietzsche,
Deleuze, and "Joy in Repetition": Prince and LCD Soundsystem
7. S & M, & Pop Perversion
8. Polly Jean Harvey asks,"Is this desire [enough]?"
Bibliography
Index