Music-Psychoanalysis-Musicology - Paperback

by Samuel Wilson (Editor)

There is a growing interest in what psychoanalytic theory brings to studying and researching music. Bringing together established scholars within the field, as well as emerging voices, this collection outlines and advances psychoanalytic approaches to our understanding of a range of musics--from the romantic and the modernist to the contemporary popular. Drawing on the work of Freud, Lacan, Jung, Zizek, Barthes, and others, it demonstrates the efficacy of psychoanalytic theories in fields such as music analysis, music and culture, and musical improvisation. It engages debates about both the methods through which music is understood and the situations in which it is experienced, including those of performance and listening. This collection is an invaluable resource for students, lecturers, researchers, and anyone else interested in the intersections between music, psychoanalysis, and musicology.

Author Biography

Samuel Wilson is Tutor in Music Philosophy and Aesthetics at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Lecturer in Contextual Studies at London Contemporary Dance School. He completed his PhD in 2013 at Royal Holloway, University of London. His research explores music and subjectivity in the intellectual and material contexts of recent modernity. He has published on contemporary music and aesthetics, drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives--from psychoanalysis and Critical Theory to phenomenology and posthumanism.