Musical Encounters with Deleuze and Guattari

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This is the first volume to mobilize encounters between the work of Gilles Deleuze and Flix Guattari and the rich developments in cultural studies of music and sound. The book takes seriously the intellectual and political challenge that the process philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari poses for previous understandings of music as permanent objects and primarily discursive texts. By elaborating on the concepts of Deleuze and Guattari in innovative ways, the chapters of the book demonstrate how musical and sonic practices and expressions can be reconsidered as instances of becoming, actors in assemblages, and actualizations of virtual tendencies. The collection pushes notions of music and sound beyond such long-term paradigms as identity thinking, the privileging of signification, and the centrality of the human subject. The chapters of the volume bring a range of new topics and methodological approaches in contact with Deleuze and Guattari. These span from movement improvisation, jazz and western art music studies, sound and performance art and reality TV talent shows to deaf musicians and indigenous music. The book also highlights such fresh ways of doing analysis and shaping the methodological tools of music and sound studies that are enabled by Deleuze and Guattaris philosophy. Their philosophy, too, gains renewed capacities and potential when responding to ethnographic, cultural, ethnomusicological, participatory, aesthetic, new materialist, feminist and queer perspectives to music and sound.

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This exciting book explores how encounters between music, sound, research practices and Deleuze and Guattaris work are co-constitutive, so that understandings of music and sound can not only be developed via engagements with Deleuze and Guattaris work but Deleuze and Guattarian research can also be musicked. Discussing a wide range of musical encounters from popular culture to high culture to performance art to everyday music making practices, this book covers topics that will interest those working across the social sciences, arts and humanities as well as more specifically in music and sound studies. * Rebecca Coleman, Reader, Sociology Department, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK *
This exciting volume succeeds in fulfilling three tasks at once. First, the volume provides a concise introduction to the key concepts of Deleuze and Guattari. Second, through their encounters with music, the concepts are successfully put to work in a methodological key. Third, the editors and authors enrich musical case studies with continental philosophy and new materialisms. These three intra-acting layers comply with Deleuze and Guattaris proposal for us to create concepts for problems that necessarily change. * Iris van der Tuin, Professor of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands *

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Pirkko Moisala is Professor of Musicology and Ethnomusicology at the University of Helsinki. Taru Leppnen is Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies at the University of Turku and Adjunct Professor of Musicology at the Universities of Turku and Helsinki. Milla Tiainen lectures in the Department of Musicology at the University of Helsinki. Hanna Vtinen is a music and dance scholar who worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki from 2013 to 2015.