Rancière
and Music
E d i t e d by J oão P e d r o C ac h o p o,
Pat r i ck N i ck le son an d Ch r i s Stov e r
CRITICAL CONNECTIONS
Rancière and Music
Critical Connections
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Badiou and Philosophy, edited by Sean Bowden and Simon Duffy
Agamben and Colonialism, edited by Marcelo Svirsky and Simone
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Laruelle and Non-Philosophy, edited by John Mullarkey and Anthony
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Virilio and Visual Culture, edited by John Armitage and Ryan Bishop
Rancière and Film, edited by Paul Bowman
Stiegler and Technics, edited by Christina Howells and Gerald Moore
Badiou and the Political Condition, edited by Marios Constantinou
Nancy and the Political, edited by Sanja Dejanovic
Butler and Ethics, edited by Moya Lloyd
Latour and the Passage of Law, edited by Kyle McGee
Nancy and Visual Culture, edited by Carrie Giunta and Adrienne
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Rancière and Literature, edited by Grace Hellyer and Julian Murphet
Agamben and Radical Politics, edited by Daniel McLoughlin
Balibar and the Citizen Subject, edited by Warren Montag and Hanan
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Rancière and Music, edited by João Pedro Cachopo, Patrick Nickleson
and Chris Stover
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Rancière and Music
Edited by João Pedro Cachopo, Patrick Nickleson
and Chris Stover
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Contents
List of Examples vii
Acknowledgements viii
Notes on Contributors x
Introduction 1
João Pedro Cachopo, Patrick Nickleson and
Chris Stover
Part I: Music and Noise
1. Musique concrète and the Aesthetic Regime of Art 27
Loïc Bertrand
2. ‘Rip it up and start again’: Reconfigurations of the
Audible under the Aesthetic Regime of the Arts 47
Daniel Frappier
3. A Lesson in Low Music 71
Patrick Nickleson
Part II: Politics of History
4. Wandering with Rancière: Sound and Structure
under the Aesthetic Regime 97
Martin Kaltenecker
5. Staging Music in the Aesthetic Regime of Art:
Rancière, Berlioz and the Bells of Harold en Italie 117
João Pedro Cachopo
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6. Rancière on Music, Rancière’s Non-music 138
Katharina Clausius
7. Coloured Opera and the Violence of
Dis-identification 156
William Fourie and Carina Venter
Part III: Politics of Interaction
8. Musical Politics in the Cuban Police Order 177
Kjetil Klette Bøhler
9. Rancière and Improvisation: Reading Contingency
in Music and Politics 207
Dan DiPiero
10. Rancière’s Affective Impropriety 230
Chris Stover
Part IV: Encounters and Challenges
11. Rancière, Resistance and the Problem of
Commemorative Art: Music Displacing Violence
Displacing Music 265
Sarah Collins
12. Stain 290
Murray Dineen
13. On Shoemakers and Related Matters: Rancière and
Badiou on Richard Wagner 312
Erik M. Vogt
14. Roll Over the Musical Boundaries: A Few
Milestones for the Implementation of an Equal
Method in Musicology 334
Danick Trottier
Afterword: A Distant Sound 353
Jacques Rancière
Works Cited 366
Index 390
