Music and the Myth of Wholeness: Toward a New Aesthetic Paradigm (MIT Press)
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (920 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01DB40LLY |
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| Number of Pages | : | 349 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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Tim Hodgkinson is a composer, musician, and writer. His compositions have been performed at concerts and festivals around the world. In 1968, he cofounded (with Fred Frith) the politically and musically radical group Henry Cow.
(Ed Sarath, Professor of Music, University of Michigan; author of Improvisation, Creativity, and Consciousness: Jazz as Integral Template for Music, Education, and Society) . (Gerard J. A truly mind-expanding read. Puccio, Chair and Professor, International Center for Studies in Creativity, The State University College at Buffalo)Arguing for a disentanglement between biological organism and cultural backdrop in how we understand and derive meaning in art, Tim Hodgkinson turns some of our most cherished aesthetic convictions on their head. Whether or not one agrees with all of his premises, it is difficult to
But this is not our reproduction of the composer's own subjectivation; when we perform our listening of the music, we are sharing the formative risks taken by its maker. To examine this in practice, Hodgkinson looks at the work of three composers who have each claimed to stimulate a new way of listening: Pierre Schaeffer, John Cage, and Helmut Lachenmann.. His analysis discards the conventional idea of the human being as an integrated whole in favor of a rich and complex field in which incompatible kinds of information -- biological and cultural -- collide. In this book, Tim Hodgkinson proposes a theory of aesthetics and music grounded in the boundary between nature and culture within the human being. Drawing on his experiences as a musician, composer, and anthropologist, Hodgkinson shows how when we listen to music a new subjectivity comes to life in ourselves. The normal mode of agency is suspended, and the subjectivity inscribed in the music comes toward us as a formative "other" to engage with. It is only when we acknowledge the clash of body and language within human identity that we can understand how art brings forth the special form of subjectivity potentially present in aesthetic experiences.As a y
Five Stars Timothy Mcdonough Outstanding and thought provoking!!!