LITM Extra - Music and Marxism pt.2 [excerpt]

Love is the Message: Dance, Music and Counterculture

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In the concluding episode of the mini-series, Jeremy completes his account of those Marxist academics and thinkers whose work either makes reference to music or can be brought to bear on it. Picking up in the 1950s, we hear about ways of understanding music's autonomous capacity to affect people's bodies and make them feel, desublimation, Structuralism and it's descendents, and vibe. Jeremy touches on the writing of Bloch, Marcuse, Freud, Barthes and Kristeva, as well as staples of the show Deleuze and Guattari. We hear about the 'grain' of the voice, the difference between the meaning and the material aspects of song, and finally return to the big question: what drives historical change?

Tracklist:

Pete Seeger - Which Side Are You On?
Ewan McColl & Peggy Seeger - The Shoals of Herring
The Grateful Dead - Birdsong

Books, articles etc:

#ACFM Podcast on folk music: https://novaramedia.com/2021/05/08/acfm-microdose-jeremy-gilbert-on-folk-music/
Ernst Bloch - The Spirit of Utopia
Herbert Marcuse - One Dimensional Man
Herbert Marcuse - Eros and Civilisation
Sigmund Freud - Civilization and its Discontents
Roland Barthes - Mythologies
Roland Barthes - The Grain of the Voice
Julia Kristeva - Revolutions in Poetic Language
Deleuze & Guattari - Anti-Oedipus
Deleuze & Guattari - A Thousand Plateaus
Jeremy Gilbert - 'Becoming Music: The Rhizomatic Moment of Improvisation’ in Deleuze and Music Buchanan & Swiboda (Eds)
Jaques Attali - Noise