Voicing the Popular: On the Subjects of Popular MusicRoutledge, 2013 M09 5 - 352 páginas How does popular music produce its subject? How does it produce us as subjects? More specifically, how does it do this through voice--through "giving voice"? And how should we understand this subject--"the people"--that it voices into existence? Is it singular or plural? What is its history and what is its future? Voicing the Popular draws on approaches from musical interpretation, cultural history, social theory and psychoanalysis to explore key topics in the field, including race, gender, authenticity and repetition. Taking most of his examples from across the past hundred years of popular music development--but relating them to the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century "pre-history"--Richard Middleton constructs an argument that relates "the popular" to the unfolding of modernity itself. Voicing the Popular renews the case for ambitious theory in musical and cultural studies, and, against the grain of much contemporary thought, insists on the progressive potential of a politics of the Low. |
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... Žižek's Lacanian readingof Marx, money —the most abstracted form of the exchange function of commodities —operates asa “real abstraction;”thatis,asa frameworkfor social interaction whose “misrepresentation” of social relations isthevery ...
... Žižek's deploymentof Lacan's rather notorious aphorism about the(non) existence of Woman, we mightsay that actually “(The) popular music does not exist.”The logic here (whichLacan derivesfrom Hegel) isthatof the“nonall” setas it ...
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... Žižek does not seem to think so: for him, the “negation of the negation” does not freeze thedialectic but reveals negation as a sort of positivity referring back to the constitutive contradiction in the object itself; “synthesis ...
... Žižek's “sublime object,” a littlebitof theReal, what isinthe object more than itself, whatthesymbolic process must exclude ifitisto function at all, the objectcause of desire. This object corresponds, on the sideofthe subject, withthe ...
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Appropriating the Phallus? | |
Memories Are Made of This | |
The Real Thing? | |
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