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Dear All,
This year's Royal Holloway-British Library Lectures in Musicology
presented by Eric Clarke (Oxford University) will continue next week on
Wednesday 3 December at the British Library Conference Centre from
6-7pm. Admission to all lectures is free.
Lecture 2 Listening to subjectivity
Wednesday, 3 December 2008
What does it mean to hear or listen to subjectivity in music - and whose
subjectivity do we think we hear? This lecture examines the idea that
music affords an insight into other minds, and the experience of other
subjectivities - and perhaps an experience that is beyond or 'beside'
subjectivity: a state in which the distinction between subject and
object is rendered indeterminate. Following a period in which structural
listening dominated musicology and the psychology of music, a much
greater diversity of listening styles and attitudes is now recognised
and explored. One way to understand this diversity is as a continuum
from immersive to discursive ways of listening, as different ways in
which listening can be understood to be embodied, and as the
articulation of different kinds of listening competencies or
sensitivities. Since the autonomy-orientated and cognitive perspective
of most psychological research on listening has rather little to say
about this question, I suggest a number of ways in which musical
listening relates to more general principles of auditory perception, and
propose some ways in which this different perspective can shed light on
the central theme of these lectures.
Upcoming dates and lecture titles are as follows:
Lecture 3 Performing subjectivity
Monday, 19 January 2009
Lecture 4 Constructing/composing subjectivity
Monday, 16 February 2009
Lecture 5 Musical subjectivity in the future
Monday, 16 March 2009
The series is organised by RHUL's Music Department and supported by the
British Library.
For further information and abstracts, visit:
http://www.rhul.ac.uk/music/Research/08-09distinguishedlectures.html
If you have enquiries, please don't hesitate to contact me.
Kind regards,
Ananay Aguilar
Music Department
Royal Holloway, University of London
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