The Acoustic Self in English Modernism and Beyond: Writing Musically

Contents

• Acknowledgments
• List of Illustrations
• Introduction: We Hear Only Ourselves
• Chapter One: Let's Get Lost
• The Musical Text
• Musical Intertextuality
• Music and the Subject
• The Sonic Self
• The Acoustic Self
• Writing the Acoustic Self in English Modernism
• Chapter Two: Of Fugue and Other Demons
• The Listening Subject
• The Way of All Flesh
• Point Counter Point
• The Waves
• In Light of "Sirens"
• Chapter Three: Does Beethoven Kill? - Absolute Music and the Self
• Aesthetic Reconsiderations of the Arts
• Wagner's "Beethoven"
• A Room with a View
• Myth
• Forster's Pictorial Turn?
• Music as Truth
• Howards End
• Chapter Four: Wagner, Je T'aime ... Moi Non Plus
• Wagner: Let's talk about sex
• Not Defining Gender
• Gender and Music
• Wagner's Gesamtkunstwerk: From Feuerbach to Parsifal
• The Longest Journey
• Parsifal
• Brothers
• Chapter Five: The Dispersion of the Acoustic Self
• The Bear Comes Home
• Sample, Loop, and the Mix
• Trip City
• Epilogue