Rancière and Music

by João Pedro Cachopo (Editor), Patrick Nickleson (Editor), Chris Stover (Editor)

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.

ContributorsLo�c Bertrand, Universit� Paris Diderot, France.
Kjetil Klette B�hler, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway.
Jo�o Pedro Cachopo, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, and University of Chicago, USA.
Katharina Clausius, Universit� de Montr�al, 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, Universit� du Qu�bec � Montr�al, Canada.
Martin Kaltenecker, Universit� Paris Diderot, France.
Patrick Nickleson, Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Jacques Ranci�re, University of Paris VIII, France.
Chris Stover, University of Oslo, Norway.
Danick Trottier, Universit� du Qu�bec � Montr�al, Canada.
Carina Venter, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
Erik Vogt, Trinity College, CT, USA and University of Vienna, Austria.

416 pages, Hardcover

Published May 26, 2020

About the author

João Pedro Cachopo lecciona Filosofia da Música na Universidade Nova de Lisboa, onde é membro do Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical e colaborador do Instituto de Filosofia da Nova. Os seus interesses, atravessando os domínios da musicologia, da filosofia e dos estudos de media, incluem o impacto da revolução digital na cultura contemporânea, a relação entre as artes e questões de performance, dramaturgia e remediação.
Entre 2017 e 2019, foi Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow na University of Chicago. Ensinou como professor visitante na Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (2016), na Universidade Estadual de Campinas (2016) e na Universidade de Brasília (2022). Foi investigador visitante na Universität Potsdam (2008), na Université Paris 8 (2009), na Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2010), na University of Durham (2012) e na Columbia University in the City of New York (2015). Integrou o Seminário de Jovens Cientistas da Academia de Ciência de Lisboa entre 2017 e 2020. Desde 2022, é membro do Conselho Editorial de Sound Stage Screen.