Strategies of Conquest and Defence

Encounters with the Object in Twentieth-Century Music

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4408908
AutoresSamuel Wilson (0000-0001-9113-7763), Samuel J Wilson (0000-0001-8780-6266, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen145
Número2
Páginas457-484
Fecha de publicación2020-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of the Royal Musical Association (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0269-0403 • E-ISSN: 1471-6933
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/rma.2020.18
OpenAlexW3099910635
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas24

Reacting to recent materialist developments in music studies and beyond, I argue for the value of dialectics in accounting for compositional orientations vis-à-vis their objects - be these objects sound-producing, non-human entities, such as musical instruments, or the object that is 'sound itself '. Engaging the compositional thought and practice of Busoni, Russolo, Varèse, Cage and Tudor by way of example, I highlight two intersecting tendencies: the first constitutes a presumed mastery over the object in question; the second is suggestive of an exploration of the object on its own terms. Interweaving aspects of post-Marxist and psychoanalytic theory, I argue that, ultimately, our orientation towards the object manifests a negotiation of the self in a changing material world

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