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The place of music in Ranciere's thought has long been underestimated or unrecognised. This volume responds to this absence with a collection of 15 essays by scholars from a variety of music- and sound-related fields, including an Afterword by Ranciere on the role of music in his thought and writing. The essays engage closely with Ranciere's existing commentary on music and its relationship to other arts in the aesthetic regime, revealed through detailed case studies around music, sound and listening. Ranciere's thought is explored along a number of music-historical trajectories, including Italian and German opera, Romantic and modernist music, Latin American and South African music, jazz, and contemporary popular music. Ranciere's work is also set creatively in dialogue with other key contemporary thinkers including Adorno, Althusser, Badiou and Deleuze.

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Jacques Ranci�re has emerged as one of the most influential of contemporary French philosophers writing on aesthetics and its relation to politics today. His work has excited much debate on an international scale, in particular in the visual arts, and film studies. The present volume, a collection of essays on Ranci�re edited by Jo�o Pedro Cachopo, Patrick Nickleson and Chris Stover, is therefore extremely timely. But what is particularly important about this collection is that it focuses on the application of Ranci�re's theories to music, an art form that occupies a small but very meaningful position in Ranci�re's large output. The range and diversity of the essays in this collection is remarkable. These highly original, creative and innovative contributions towards an understanding of Ranci�re's seminal work will undoubtedly serve to stimulate new thinking and debate within the aesthetics and sociology of music in the Anglophone world.--Max Paddison, Emeritus Professor of Music and Aesthetics, Durham University

Jacques Rancière has emerged as one of the most influential of contemporary French philosophers writing on aesthetics and its relation to politics today. His work has excited much debate on an international scale, in particular in the visual arts, and film studies. The present volume, a collection of essays on Rancière edited by João Pedro Cachopo, Patrick Nickleson and Chris Stover, is therefore extremely timely. But what is particularly important about this collection is that it focuses on the application of Rancière’s theories to music, an art form that occupies a small but very meaningful position in Rancière’s large output. The range and diversity of the essays in this collection is remarkable. These highly original, creative and innovative contributions towards an understanding of Rancière’s seminal work will undoubtedly serve to stimulate new thinking and debate within the aesthetics and sociology of music in the Anglophone world. -- Max Paddison, Emeritus Professor of Music and Aesthetics, Durham University

Jacques Rancière has emerged as one of the most influential of contemporary French philosophers writing on aesthetics and its relation to politics today. His work has excited much debate on an international scale, in particular in the visual arts, and film studies. The present volume, a collection of essays on Rancière edited by João Pedro Cachopo, Patrick Nickleson and Chris Stover, is therefore extremely timely. But what is particularly important about this collection is that it focuses on the application of Rancière's theories to music, an art form that occupies a small but very meaningful position in Rancière's large output. The range and diversity of the essays in this collection is remarkable. These highly original, creative and innovative contributions towards an understanding of Rancière's seminal work will undoubtedly serve to stimulate new thinking and debate within the aesthetics and sociology of music in the Anglophone world.--Max Paddison, Emeritus Professor of Music and Aesthetics, Durham University

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João Pedro Cachopo is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow with a joint affiliation to the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and the University of Chicago Patrick Nickleson is Postdoctoral Researcher at Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario. Chris Stover is an Associate Professor of Music Studies and Research at Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University, where he directs the PhD program and teaches courses in music theory, musicology, and jazz. His recent book Reimagining Music Theory: Contexts, Communities, Creativities was published by Routledge as part of the College Music Society’s Emerging Fields in Music series, and he is co-editor of Rancière and Music (EUP) and Making Music Together: Analyzing Musical Interaction (OUP, in press). He has published many articles and chapters that bring critical theory and music studies into robust dialogue, including essays in Deleuze and Guattari Studies, Music Theory Online, Perspectives of New Music, Analytical Approaches to World Music, The Open Space Magazine, Engaging Students, the Oxford Handbook of Public Music Theory, the Oxford Handbook of Feminism and Music Education, Queer Ear, Deleuze and Children, Machinic Assemblages of Desire, and many more. He is also an improvising trombonist and composer.

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