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Ideology and Interpretation: a Figurative Semiotics of Musical Discourse

Martina Viljoen ; University of the Free State, Odsjek za glazbu, Bloemfontein, Južna Afrika

Sažetak

Central to this article is an exploration of the ideologically charged cultural trope "Music is a Woman". Focussing on the "gendered" poststructuralist theories of Julia Kristeva and Roland Barthes, the elusive concepts Woman, Voice, and Body are examined in terms of concealed distortive biases or partialities. To this aid, critical tools relevant to the study of music as a complex ideological form are introduced. These are employed to elucidate the relationship between symbolic (semiotic) musical content and discursive socio-cultural contexts, and to uncover the relative truths inherent both in absolutist and anti-rationalist models of musical meaning. Offering a case study from the South African art music repertoire, the example chosen for this purpose is "Die Meisie" ("The Girl"), the first of five songs from Hubert du Plessis’s cycle Die Vrou ("The Woman"). This text allows for an exceptionally productive exploration of the role of ideology in the figurative construction of musical meaning, uncovering contested points of differentiation and of intersection between music and language.

Ključne riječi

ideology; musicology; hermeneutics; discourse analysis; semiotics; metaphor analysis; J. Kristeva; R. Barthes

Hrčak ID:

63399

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/63399

Datum izdavanja:

14.1.2005.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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