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Peculiar attunements = how affect theory turned musical /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Peculiar attunements/ Roger Mathew Grant.
Reminder of title:	how affect theory turned musical /
Author:	Grant, Roger Mathew.
Published:	New York, NY :Fordham University Press, : c2020.,
Description:	1 online resource (192 p.)
Subject:	Doctrine of the affections. -
Online resource:	http://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823288083
ISBN:	9780823288083

Peculiar attunements = how affect theory turned musical /
Grant, Roger Mathew.

Peculiar attunementshow affect theory turned musical /[electronic resource] :Roger Mathew Grant. - 1st ed. - New York, NY :Fordham University Press,c2020. - 1 online resource (192 p.)

Frontmatter --

Peculiar Attunements places the recent turn to affect into conversation with a parallel movement in European music theory of the eighteenth century. During that time the affects-or passions, as they were also called-formed a vital component of a mimetic model of the arts. Eighteenth-century critics held that artworks imitated or copied the natural world in order to produce copies of the affects in their beholders. But music caused a problem for such theories, since it wasn't apparent that musical tones could imitate anything with any dependability, beyond the rare thunderclap or birdcall. Struggling to articulate how it was that music managed to move its auditors without imitation, certain theorists developed a new affect theory crafted especially for music, postulating that music's physical materiality as sound vibrated the nerves of listeners and attuned them to the affects through sympathetic resonance. This was a theory of affective attunement that bypassed the entire structure of representation, offering a non-discursive, corporeal alternative. It is a pendant to contemporary theories of affect, and one from which they have much to learn. Inflecting our current intellectual moment through eighteenth-century music theory and aesthetics, this book offers a reassessment of affect theory's common systems and processes. It offers a new way of thinking through affect dialectically, drawing attention to patterns and problems in affect theory that we have been given to repeating. Finally, taking a cue from eighteenth-century theory, it gives renewed attention to the objects that generate affects in subjects.

ISBN: 9780823288083

Standard No.: 10.1515/9780823288083doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

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Doctrine of the affections.

LC Class. No.: ML3845 / .G824 2020eb

Dewey Class. No.: 781.1/7

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