The Whisper of an Elegy: musical sublime and the aesthetic-political gesture

Authors

  • Rodney Ferreira Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5920.primeirosestudos.2017.136797

Keywords:

Gesture, Grief, Music, Sublime

Abstract

Standing up essentially on readings from Rancière and Lyotard, this study aims to evaluate, through the relation of concepts such as “sublime” and “aesthetic state” with Music, the possibility of forming a political sensitivity, and perhaps even a political subject, from disappointment and grief inherent to the aesthetic-political context of modernity. In other words, it want to find a conscience referenced to the distress of utopian and formal ruins whose political act does not refer to social consciousness, but the notion of “sublime gesture” in dialogue with Music, as an event of the undetermined and unrepresentative

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Published

2017-08-15

Issue

Vol. 8 (2017)

Section

Artigos

License

Proposta de Política para Periódicos de Acesso Livre


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How to Cite

Ferreira, R. (2017). The Whisper of an Elegy: musical sublime and the aesthetic-political gesture. Primeiros Escritos, 8(1), 51-77. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2594-5920.primeirosestudos.2017.136797