The Hallelujah Effect
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The Hallelujah Effect

Philosophical Reflections on Music, Performance Practice, and Technology

  1. 308 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Hallelujah Effect

Philosophical Reflections on Music, Performance Practice, and Technology

About this book

This book studies the working efficacy of Leonard Cohen's song Hallelujah in the context of today's network culture. Especially as recorded on YouTube, k.d. lang's interpretation(s) of Cohen's Hallelujah, embody acoustically and visually/viscerally, what Nietzsche named the 'spirit of music'. Today, the working of music is magnified and transformed by recording dynamics and mediated via Facebook exchanges, blog postings and video sites. Given the sexual/religious core of Cohen's Hallelujah, this study poses a phenomenological reading of the objectification of both men and women, raising the question of desire, including gender issues and both homosexual and heterosexual desire. A review of critical thinking about musical performance as 'currency' and consumed commodity takes up Adorno's reading of Benjamin's analysis of the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction as applied to music/radio/sound and the persistent role of 'recording consciousness'. Ultimately, the question of what Nietzsche called the becoming-human-of-dissonance is explored in terms of both ancient tragedy and Beethoven's striking deployment of dissonance as Nietzsche analyses both as playing with suffering, discontent, and pain itself, a playing for the sake not of language or sense but musically, as joy.

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Index

All index entries shown here correspond to the page numbers within the printed edition only. Within this digital format these page numbers allow for cross referencing only..
4’33” 128f
Abelard, Peter 55, 185
Abraham 100, 111
accommodation 134, 142, 148, 155, 163
acrostic 183
activism, digital 140
actor, problem of 30, 103, 108; see also artist
Adams, John 37
addiction 1
Adlon, Percy 54–5
Adorno, Theodor W. 4–6, 7, 11, 15, 17, 21, 28, 30f, 35, 38–40, 44, 48, 52, 54, 73, 76, 85,88, 99, 103f, 110, 116, 119, 121ff, 139ff, 144ff, 149ff, 161ff, 172, 175, 181, 185f, 193f, 200, 203, 208, 213, 217ff, 222, 225ff, 230, 237, 241ff, 250ff, 259, 261
as performer 135
advertising 3, 5–6, 10, 94, 142f, 157, 160ff
Aeschylus 198, 201, 216, 229, 248, 254
Aesop 182
aesthetics 11, 14, 25, 103, 143, 180, 195, 191ff, 195, 199ff, 237f
active, creator’s, subject’s or masculine 246ff, 257
science of 195, 200, 242, 257
Socratic 247
African Queen, The 54
Agamemnon 232
age and aging 20, 33, 50, 95, 115
agency 34f
AIDS 54
Alain of Lille 55
Alberti 186f
Albrechtsberger, Johann Georg 219
alchemy 203
alchemical marriage 195
Alcibiades 91
Alexander, Amy 73
All You C...

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. General Editor’s Preface
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. List of Abbreviations
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Prelude: The Hallelujah Effect on the Internet
  10. Interlude
  11. Interlude
  12. Bibliography
  13. Index