The panel on new musical ontologies: OK, so music is always the other to whatever field of knowledge you're talking about, music lets you have something like a field with a boundary that keeps it defined and real and tamable. And then you want to try to describe the impossible thing itself.
One way of defining what the music does is negatively: what does it foreclose, what does it smother, what does it make you fail to heed? (Ahmed's work on feeling or not feeling part of a group.) What does it wash out, what does it drown out? What does its underline, its emphasis, emphasize? How does it direct you to value and organize your pursuits (which pursuits does it mark as happy ones)?
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