This is a blog for the community of Rhetoric 108—On the Philosophy of Music: "Music to Hear"—in the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, Spring 2011 and Fall 2011.
Friday, April 8, 2011
Cocteau Twins - A Language Encounters a Voice
"The geno-song is the volume of the speaking and singing voice, the space in which the significations germinate "from within the language and its materiality"; this is a signifying function alien to communication, to representation (of feelings), to expression; it is the culmination (or depth) of production where melody actually works on language--not what it says but the voluptuous pleasure of its signifier-sounds, of its letters: explores how language works and identifies itself with that labor." (Barthes, The Grain 271)
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