Deep Refrains :Music, Philosophy, and the Ineffable

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Deep Refrains

Deep Refrains :Music, Philosophy, and the Ineffable

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We often say that music is ineffable, that it does not refer to anything outside of itself. But if music, in all its sensuous flux, does not mean anything in particular, might it still have a special kind of philosophical significance? In Deep Refrains, Michael Gallope draws together the writings of Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno, Vladimir Jankelevitch, Gilles Deleuze, and Felix Guattari in order to revisit the age-old question of music's ineffability from a modern perspective. For these nineteenth- and twentieth-century European philosophers, music's ineffability is a complex phenomenon that engenders an intellectually productive sense of perplexity. Through careful examination of their historical contexts and philosophical orientations, close attention to their use of language, and new interpretations of musical compositions that proved influential for their work, Deep Refrains forges the first panoptic view of their writings on music. Gallope concludes that music's ineffability is neither a conservative phenomenon nor a pious call to silence. Instead, these philosophers ask us to think through the ways in which music's stunning force might address, in an ethical fashion, intricate philosophical questions specific to the modern world.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780226483696
ISBN10 022648369X
Number Of Pages 336
Item Weight 510 g
Product Dimensions 15 x 23 x 2 mm
Publisher / Reseller The University of Chicago Press
Format paperback
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Lucidly presented and penetratingly insightful, Deep Refrains reads the most important twentieth-century reflections on music's ineffability - on the complex ways that music contributes to verbal conceptualization precisely by exceeding conventions of conceptual reasoning. Gallope's compelling and highly intelligent interventions draw out the ramifications of musical material for contemporary thought, signaling music's promise without neglecting its subtle perplexity: A resoundingly masterful accomplishment in every sense. --John T. Hamilton, Harvard University
Writers on music often encounter the ineffable only to glance quickly off of it, launching a defensive salvo in retreat. In Deep Refrains, Michael Gallope moves in the opposite direction, meditating ever more intently on music's aporias, which he maps in exhilarating philosophical detail. Eschewing polemic in favor of nimble argument and generous explanation, Gallope opens our ears to arresting sympathetic resonances between diverse thinkers--Schopenhauer, Bloch, Adorno, Wittgenstein, Jank l vitch, Deleuze and Guattari--all of whom have confronted music's potential to elude talk. Gallope deftly braids their insights to reveal a music at once deeper and more precise than we had known. --Steven Rings, University of Chicago

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Author's Bio

Michael Gallope is assistant professor in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, as well as affiliate faculty in the Department of American Studies and the program in Moving Image Studies.

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