Music After Deleuze

AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Music, Difference and Repetition2. Producing New Music: Rhizomes, Assemblages and Refrains3. Rethinking Musical Pitch: The Smooth and the Striated4. Thinking Musical Time5. A Deleuzian Semiotics of MusicConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Edward Campbell is Lecturer in Music at the University of Aberdeen, UK.

Edward Campbell shows how philosopher Gilles Deleuze, when contemplating music, can steer musicians productively away from their verbal comfort zones. Centring on the contact between Deleuze and Pierre Boulez, Dr Campbell explores and explains some particularly challenging ways of thinking about philosophical and musical modernity. Music after Deleuze proves to be both fascinating and open-ended, and it confirms that the on-going engagement between philosophy and music (non-Western or popular as much as Western and classical) continues to provoke and to intrigue. -- Arnold Whittall, Professor Emeritus of Music Theory & Analysis, King's College London, UK 20130412 Ranging from music close to Deleuze's own interests to musics much further away, this concise and useful introduction will be of much benefit, as much to Deleuzians interested in what music might reveal about Deleuze as to musicians keen to discover what Deleuze might have to tell them about music. -- Martin Iddon, Professor of Music and Aesthetics, University of Leeds, UK 20130426 Edward Campbell's Music after Deleuze is much more than a primer or introduction. Instead of laboriously dissecting the philosopher's work or providing complex theoretical commentary, Campbell explains key Deleuzian concepts in clear, accessible language and uses them to think about music in fundamentally new ways. The book covers a great diversity of musical styles and genres, from popular and jazz through the canonic classical repertoire to non-Western and avant-garde, and in each of these areas, Campbell proves an engaging, perceptive and authoritative guide. Offering fresh and illuminating insights at every turn, Music after Deleuze issues a challenge to received wisdom and conventional thinking and presents a way for music studies to revitalise itself. -- Bjorn Heile, Senior Lecturer in Music, University of Glasgow, UK 20130426 With admirable lucidity, Music after Deleuze demonstrates precisely why the ideas of Gilles