It is the contention of the editors and contributors of this volume that the work carried out by Gilles Deleuze, where rigorously applied, has the potential to cut through much of the intellectual sedimentation that has settled in the fields of music studies. Deleuze is a vigorous critic of the Western intellectual tradition, calling for a 'philosophy of difference', and, despite its ambitions, he is convinced that Western philosophy fails to truly grasp (or think) difference as such. It is argued that longstanding methods of conceptualizing music are vulnerable to Deleuze's critique. But, as Deleuze himself stresses, more important than merely critiquing established paradigms is developing ways to overcome them, and by using Deleuze's own concepts this collection aims to explore that possibility.
Author(s): Brian Hulse, Nick Nesbitt
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Company
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 307
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 8
List of Music Examples......Page 10
Notes on Contributors......Page 12
Introduction......Page 16
1 The Image of Thought and Ideas of Music......Page 20
2 Thinking Musical Difference: Music Theory as Minor Science*......Page 42
3 A Deleuzian Noise/Excavating the Body of Abstract Sound......Page 70
4 The Sound of Repeating Life: Ethics and Metaphysics in Deleuze’s Philosophy of Music......Page 96
5 Enforced Deterritorialization, or the Trouble with Musical Politics......Page 122
6 Gilles Deleuze and the Musical Spinoza......Page 148
7 Intensity, Music, and Heterogenesis in Deleuze*......Page 164
8 Critique and Clinique: From Sounding Bodies to the Musical Event......Page 178
9 Logic of Edge: Wolfgang Rihm’s Am Horizont......Page 200
10 Music and the Difference in Becoming......Page 218
11 Transformation and Becoming Other in the Music and Poetics of Luciano Berio......Page 246
12 Line, Surface, Speed: Nomadic Features of Melody......Page 268
Bibliography......Page 288
Index......Page 298
