Music to Hear on Here: The Honest Grain of Hardcore as Music of the Heart

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

The Honest Grain of Hardcore as Music of the Heart

1. Parkway Drive, Boneyards, live DVD cut filmed in Sydney, Australia

2. Stick to Your Guns, "We're What Separates the Heart from the Heartless," audio track

3. Defiler, "Cryomancer," music video (i apologize for this...)

4. Title Fight, "Symmetry," audio track

5. Have Heart, "The Same Sun," audio track

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Course Description

"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture." Martin Mull (or Elvis Costello)

Thinking about the meaning and value, intellectual, affective and neurological experiences, and aesthetics of music has occupied an important position in modern and contemporary philosophical writings. Central to the philosophy of music is a questioning of what music is insofar as it is an art form and practice, akin to but different from other arts, such as drama, literature, painting, sculpture, to name but a few examples. Claims have been made, in fact, that music’s effect, when performed and listened to, surpasses those of the other arts because of its abstact purity, of its universality, and of its singular capacity to express, represent and incite emotions. This course will explore such issues in 19th-20th century philosophy. We will begin with introductory readings of what composes the field and discipline of the philosophy of music. We will read—among other philosophers, novelists, critics and musicologists—Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Barthes and Adorno’s writings on music. Finally, we will have the occasion to read about and listen to specific musicians, both high and low, and explore the contexts of their work, concentrating on the historical and political dimensions of the practice, performance and art of making music.