Chapter 3. Sign, Affect, and Musicking before the Human

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part 1. Sounding the Political
6. Chapter 1. Waves of Moderation: The Sound of Sophrosyne in Ancient Greek and Neoliberal Times 37
7. Chapter 2. The Politics of Silence: Heidegger’s Black Notebooks 56
8. Part 2. Affect, Music, Human
9. Chapter 3. Sign, Affect, and Musicking before the Human 71
10. Chapter 4. Human Beginnings and Music: Technology and Embodiment Roles 99
11. Chapter 5. The Life and Death of Daniel Barenboim 108
12. Part 3. Voicings and Silencings
13. Chapter 6. The Philosopher’s Voice: The Prosody of Logos 141
14. Chapter 7. Late Capitalism, Affect, and the Algorithmic Self in Music Streaming Platforms 159
15. Part 4. Affective Listenings
16. Chapter 8. Music, Labor, and Technologies of Desire 197
17. Chapter 9. Musical Affect, Autobiographical Memory, and Collective Individuation in Thomas Bernhard’s Correction 224
18. Part 5. Temporalities of Sounding
19. Chapter 10. The “Sound” of Music: Sonic Agency and the Dialectic of Freedom and Constraint in Jazz Improvisation 239
20. Chapter 11. Merleau-Ponty on Consciousness and Affect through the Temporal Movement of Music 253
21. Chapter 12. A. N. Whitehead, Feeling, and Music: On Some Potential Modifications to Affect Theory 268
22. Part 6. Theorizing the Affections
23. Chapter 13. Delivering Affect: Mersenne, Voice, and the Background of Jesuit Rhetorical Theory 289
24. Chapter 14. Mimesis and the Affective Ground of Baroque Representation 303
25. Chapter 15. Affect and the Recording Devices of Seventeenth-Century Italy 325
26. Chapter 16. Immanuel Kant and the Downfall of the Affektenlehre 342
27. Acknowledgments 361
28. List of Contributors 363
29. Bibliography 365
30. Index 391