7. Collective Listening: Postmodern Critical Processes and MTV

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction: Beyond Structural Listening? 1
5. 1. The Disciplined Subject of Musical Analysis 13
6. 2. Musical Virtues 44
7. 3. The Chosen One’s Choice 70
8. 4. Beethoven Antihero: Sex, Violence, and the Aesthetics of Failure, or Listening to the Ninth Symphony as Postmodern Sublime 109
9. 5. Passion/Mirrors (A Passion for the Violent Ineffable: Modernist Music and the Angel / In the Hall of Mirrors) 154
10. 6. Uncertainty, Disorientation, and Loss as Responses to Musical Structure 173
11. 7. Collective Listening: Postmodern Critical Processes and MTV 201
12. 8. One Bar in Eight: Debussy and the Death of Description 233
13. 9. The Return of the Aesthetic: Musical Formalism and Its Place in Political Critique 252
14. Afterword: Toward the Next Paradigm of Musical Scholarship 279
15. Bibliography 303
16. List of Contributors 319
17. Index 323