The sonic self: musical subjectivity and signification
Choice Reviews Online · 2001
Preliminary Table of Contents: Introduction Musical Initiations Subjects and Subjectivity A Philosophical Outlook 1. Signs of Subjectivity Physical Disciplines and Signs A Semiotic View of Musical Subjectivity Expressive Individuation and Uncertainty 2. Listening Subjects and Semiotic Worlds The Uncertainties of Musical Signification Interntionality and Metaphor Subjects and First-person Authority Regaining an Interpretive I 3. Musical Signs Signs and Objects Questions and Typologies 4. Naming Qualities Hearing Signs Qualities and Qualities-as-Signs Disciplinary Boundaries: How Does Semiotics Relate to Psychology? 5. Gesturing Gesture as Performance and Convention To Perform or to Dissimulate? Voice and Gesture as Virtualities 6. Framing Willfulness in Tonal Law Theorists: Giving Roles to Rules The Dialectics of Tonal Semiosis 7. Complex Syntheses Expressive Complexity and Musical Personae Modes of Synthesis 8. Culturally Embedded Signs Emergent Qualities Skeptical Issues 9. Values and Personal Categories Sounds and Sensuality Encounters Rehabilitating the Subject Appendix: Theorizing Generals Real or Nominal Rules? Finding Constancies, Explaining What One Hears, or Seeking Enlightenment?