Music--Psychoanalysis--Musicology - Paperback

by Samuel Wilson (Editor)

There is a growing interest in what psychoanalytic theory brings to researching music. 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. It demonstrates the efficacy of psychoanalytic theories in fields such as music analysis,

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.