Rancière and Music

A rich exploration of the meaning and consequences of Jacques Rancière’s work in relation to music and the aesthetic

• 15 essays by scholars from a variety of music and sound-related fields
• With an Afterword by Rancière, newly written specially for this volume, on the role of music in his thought and writing
• Considers many aspects of Rancière’s thought, conceived through musical lenses
• Develops of key Rancièrian concepts including the distribution of the sensible, the aesthetic regime of art, politics and the police, speech and noise, disagreement, equality and more

The place of music in Rancière’s thought has long been underestimated or unrecognised. Rancière and Music responds to this absence with a collection of 15 essays by scholars from a variety of music- and sound-related fields, including an Afterword by Rancière on the role of music in his thought and writing. The essays engage closely with Rancière’s existing commentary on music and its relationship to other arts in the aesthetic regime, revealed through detailed case studies around music, sound and listening.

Rancière’s thought is explored along a number of music-historical trajectories, including Italian and German opera, Romantic and modernist music, Latin American and South African music, jazz, and contemporary popular music. Rancière’s work is also set creatively in dialogue with other key contemporary thinkers including Adorno, Althusser, Badiou and Deleuze.

Contributors

Loïc Bertrand, Université Paris Diderot, France.
Kjetil Klette Bøhler, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway.
João Pedro Cachopo, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, and University of Chicago, USA.
Katharina Clausius, Université de Montréal, Canada.
Sarah Collins, University of Western Australia.
Murray Dineen, University of Ottawa, Canada.
Dan DiPiero, Miami University of Ohio, USA.
William Fourie, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
Daniel Frappier, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada.
Martin Kaltenecker, Université Paris Diderot, France.
Patrick Nickleson, Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Jacques Rancière, University of Paris VIII, France.
Chris Stover, University of Oslo, Norway.
Danick Trottier, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada.
Carina Venter, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
Erik Vogt, Trinity College, CT, USA and University of Vienna, Austria.