Neoliberal Reason, Contemporary Music, and Proximal Critique
Wilson, S. (Accepted/In press). Neoliberal Reason, Contemporary Music, and Proximal Critique. Twentieth-Century Music.
2025
View OutputDr Samuel Wilson
Key details:
- Department:
- Academic Studies
- Role:
- Professor of Music, Philosophy and the Arts
Biography & Pure profile
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.
Recent Research Outputs
Adam Blum, Peter Goldberg, and Michael Levin, Here I’m Alive: The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis
Wilson, S. (Accepted/In press). Adam Blum, Peter Goldberg, and Michael Levin, Here I’m Alive: The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis and History , 26(2).
2024
View Output‘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
View Output‘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
View OutputNew 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
View OutputIntroduction: Musical Materialisms
Wilson, S., van Elferen, I., & Sergeant, M. (2020). Introduction: Musical Materialisms. Contemporary Music Review, 39(5), 517-525.
2020
View OutputStrategies 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
View OutputDoes the Psychoanalysis of Music Have a “Subject”?
Wilson, S. (2018). Does the Psychoanalysis of Music Have a “Subject”? Routledge.
2018
View OutputIntroduction
Wilson, S. (2018). Introduction. Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315596563-1/introduction-samuel-wilson
2018
View OutputNotes on Adorno’s “Musical Material” During the New Materialisms
Wilson, S. (2018). Notes on Adorno’s “Musical Material” During the New Materialisms. Music and Letters, 99(2), 260-275.
2018
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