Stop making sense : music from the perspective of the real / Scott Wilson.

Author
Wilson, Scott, 1962- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • London : Karnac, 2015.
  • ©2015
Description
xxxv, 236 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

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    Subject(s)
    Series
    Psychoanalysis and popular culture series [More in this series]
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction : Fear of music
    • Part I, Amusia. Music and the love of the master ; The marriage of Figaro and Freudian melophobia ; Dance and "condansation" : Che Guevera's a-rhythmia ; Groundhog Day : the earworm and the love song ; From symptom to symphony ; The audio unconscious ; Hank Williams's cough ; From speaking beings to Talking Heads
    • Part II, The madness of economic realism. Primal scream : discourse and repetition ; Capitalism and psychosis I : the Nash equilibrium ; Michel Foucault and the beauty of the absolute ; Bach's Little fugue ; Decomposing the voice ; American psycho and Phil Collins ; The ride of the Valkyries
    • Part III, Screamadelica. Flower of hate : the lack in the Beatles ; The murder of John Lennon ; Echo ; Unlistenable ; The braindance of the hikikomori ; The three delusions ; The hum.
    ISBN
    • 178220198X ((pbk.))
    • 9781782201984 ((pbk.))
    OCLC
    907630606
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