Musical Process and Trauma in the Discourses of Wagner’s Ring
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
2-14-2021
Publication Title
Music Sound Trauma Conference 2021
Publisher
Music, Sound, and Trauma: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Publisher Location
On-line
Abstract
The diagnostic category of trauma, explored by Freud in Studies in Hysteria through Beyond the Pleasure Principle, has in recent decades attracted the attention of humanities scholars such as Caruth (1996) and Schönfelder (2013), who have theorized and demonstrated its operations in prose, drama, and poetry. Trauma in musical works has been examined too, as in Wintle’s touchstone analysis of scenes from Wagner (1992). The present paper builds on the insights of this literature to analyze specific metaphors of trauma in semantic, gestic, and musical strata of Wagner’s Ring.
Controlled Subject
Music; Semantics
Disciplines
Music | Poetry
Repository Citation
Barone, A.
(2021).
Musical Process and Trauma in the Discourses of Wagner’s Ring.
Music Sound Trauma Conference 2021
On-line: Music, Sound, and Trauma: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.