Dr Samuel Wilson

Key details:

Department:
Academic Studies
Role:
Professor of Music, Philosophy and the Arts
Samuel Wilson

Dr Samuel Wilson is a lecturer and researcher. He specialises in critical and theoretical approaches to music and the performing arts, with a particular emphasis on critical theory and contemporary art music. He is the author of New Music and the Crises of Materiality: Sounding Bodies and Objects in Late Modernity (Routledge, 2021), edited Music—Psychoanalysis—Musicology (Routledge, 2018), and co-edited a special issue of the journal Contemporary Music Review (2020) on ‘Musical Materialisms’. His articles have appeared in journals such as CMR, the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, and Music and Letters, and he has contributed chapters to edited collections focusing on topics such as music and modernism, and music and time.  

 
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Adam Blum, Peter Goldberg, and Michael Levin, Here I’m Alive: The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis

Wilson, S. (2024). Adam Blum, Peter Goldberg, and Michael Levin, Here I’m Alive: The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis and History , 26(2). https://doi.org/10.3366/pah.2024.0518

2024

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Neoliberal Reason, Contemporary Music, and Proximal Critique

Wilson, S. (2024). Neoliberal Reason, Contemporary Music, and Proximal Critique. Twentieth-Century Music. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/twentieth-century-music/article/abs/neoliberal-reason-contemporary-music-and-proximal-critique/E5090D0E0D3179B5CCB82A384B647F5E

2024

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‘Cage, Reich, and Morris: Process and Sonic Fetishism’ in The Sound of Žižek: Musicological Perspectives on Slavoj Žižek

Wilson, S., & Bertola, M. F. (Ed.) (2023). ‘Cage, Reich, and Morris: Process and Sonic Fetishism’ in The Sound of Žižek: Musicological Perspectives on Slavoj Žižek. Peter Lang.

2023

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‘Musical Time in a Fast World,’ in The Oxford Handbook of Time in Music

Wilson, S., Young, T. (Ed.), Payne, E. (Ed.), & Doffman, M. (2022). ‘Musical Time in a Fast World,’ in The Oxford Handbook of Time in Music. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190947279.013.27

2022

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New Music and the Crises of Materiality: Sounding Bodies and Objects in Late Modernity

Wilson, S. (2021). New Music and the Crises of Materiality: Sounding Bodies and Objects in Late Modernity. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003038535

2021

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Introduction: Musical Materialisms

Wilson, S., van Elferen, I., & Sergeant, M. (2020). Introduction: Musical Materialisms. Contemporary Music Review, 39(5), 517-525.

2020

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Strategies of Conquest and Defence: Musical Encounters with the Object in Twentieth Century Music

Wilson, S. (2020). Strategies of Conquest and Defence: Musical Encounters with the Object in Twentieth Century Music. Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 145(2), 457-484.

2020

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Does the Psychoanalysis of Music Have a “Subject”?

Wilson, S. (2018). Does the Psychoanalysis of Music Have a “Subject”? Routledge.

2018

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Introduction

Wilson, S. (2018). Introduction. Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315596563-1/introduction-samuel-wilson

2018

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Music—Psychoanalysis—Musicology

Wilson, S. (2018). Music—Psychoanalysis—Musicology. Routledge.

2018

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