Stop Making Sense : Music from the Perspective of the Real.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author -- Series Editors' Preface -- Preface -- Introduction: Fear of Music -- Part I Amusia -- Interlude 1 Music and the love of the master -- Chapter One The Marriage of Figaro and Freudian melophobia -- Chapter Two Dance and "condansation": Che Guevara's a-rhythmia -- Interlude 2 Groundhog Day: the earworm and the love song -- Chapter Three From symptom to synthomy -- Chapter Four The audio unconscious -- Interlude 3 Hank Williams's cough -- Chapter Five From speaking beings to Talking Heads -- Part II The Madness of Economic Realism -- Chapter Six Primal scream: dissonance and repetition -- Chapter Seven Capitalism and psychosis I: the Nash equilibrium -- Interlude 4 Michel Foucault and the beauty of the absolute -- Chapter Eight Bach's Little Fugue -- Chapter Nine Decomposing the voice -- Interlude 5 American Psycho and Phil Collins -- Chapter Ten The Ride of the Valkyries -- Part III Screamadelica -- Chapter Eleven Flower of hate: the lack in The Beatles -- Chapter Twelve The murder of John Lennon -- Interlude 6 Echo -- Chapter Thirteen Unlistenable -- Chapter Fourteen The braindance of the hikikomori -- Chapter Fifteen The three delusions -- Coda The hum -- Notes -- References -- Index.

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