Music and psychology : from Vienna to London, 1939-52 / Hans Keller ; edited by Christopher Wintle with Alison Garnham ; drawings by Milein Cosman.
| Author/creator | Keller, Hans |
| Other author | Wintle, Christopher, editor. |
| Other author | Garnham, A. M. (Alison M.), 1964- editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | London : Plumbago Books, 2003. |
| Description | xviii, 267 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, music, portraits ; 25 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Spine title | Hans Keller : music and psychology |
| Series | Hans Keller Archive Hans Keller Archive (Series) UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents | I. From Vienna to London, 1939-42. An émigré in England. England ; Amusements ; Lyons corner house, Pissoir ; Critical, all too critical (On Nietzsche) ; Miscellaneous writings in German (report) -- Mental shorthand. In brief ; Shielding you with brevity (Schonend, weil in Kurze) (Aphorisms) ; Selected early aphorisms ; Apropos of leisure and pleasure (Aphorisms) ; Mental shorthand (Aphorisms) -- Politics, philosophy and society. Scientific socialism: ad absurdum (On Stalin and Marxism) ; National socialism and 'being German' ; A community of the future (On Zionism, response) ; Summary report on the revisionist faction within your youth club, with a proposal for a more effective scheme of activities ; Capital punishment -- Sex and character, yours and mine. You on sex ; Man to woman ; To start you sleeping ; Man, woman and midway between -- II. Psychology, 1942-47. (1) Psychology and sociology: responses to Margaret Phillips (1942-47) -- Small-group psychology. Group functioning of a string quartet ; Internment camp (isle of man) ; Some critical remarks upon a system of classification used for discovering the conditions under which groups function (Extracts) ; The childish leader senior girls school ; St. Anne's youth club ; The psychology of social unity (Report) ; Psychoanalytic (Freudian) group theory and its critics ; Small social groups in England (Phillips) (Contents) -- Language of psychology. On the substitution of Freudian terms by popular ones -- From community to association. British tank crew: report and commentary ; The psychological significance of some sociological conceptions of the group -- Individual psychology and its relation to group psychology. Individual psychology and group psychology ; Hitler and history -- (2) Psychological observations (1945-47). Prostitutes wear marriage-rings: group self-contempt. Married-seeming prostitutes ; Prostitutes wear marriage-rings ; Prostitutes: private census ; Interviewing prostitutes: first interview ; Correspondence with John Rickman ; Group self-love -- Psychological essays. Self-knowledge ; Sexual hesitancies ; The need for pets ; Religion: the psychoanalytic standpoint ; War, peace and psychology ; Peace and pessimism ; Belsen: a psychological comment ; Psychological writings (Report) ; The psychiatric psychosis -- On maturity (from The Psychologist). On maturity (first set) ; What IS maturity? ; On maturity (second set) ; Maturity ; On maturity (third set) ; Psychology and ethics -- Psychology and gender. Male psychology ; Human's lib -- |
| Contents | III. Music and psychology, 1946-52 (and after). The psychology of opera. Three psychoanalytic notes on Peter Grimes ; Open letter to the authors of Peter Grimes ; Peter Pears's Peter Grimes (Letter) ; Letter to Peter Pears ; A sixteen-months-old boy and his mother substitutes ; First opera performances in England (including The Rape of Lucretia) ; Off and on The Little Sweep ; Keller's writings on Benjamin Britten, 1946-52 (Report) -- The psychology of film music. The psychology of film music (Benjamin and Auric) ; Georges Auric at film music's best -- Creative character: its psychology. Britten and Mozart ; Mozart and Boccherini ; Towards the psychology of Agatha Christie's genius -- The psychology of performers. Kyla Greenbaum and the psychology of the modern artist ; Furtwangler, Menuhin and Szigeti ; Not famous enough (Britten, Huberman, Kell, Pears and Whyte) -- The psychology of composers and listeners. Musical self-contempt in Britain -- Psychology and aesthetics. Apropos of beauty and reflection ; "Bloody little fool": Sid's kiss and the problem of taste in opera -- The psychology of genius (Two essays from 1956). Towards the psychology of Stravinsky's genius ; Philosophy of new music (Adorno) (Review) ; Schumann after Freud ; Biography's truths: Freud: the man and the cause (Clark) (Review) -- The psychology of music and its effects: two fragments. Manifestations of the primary process in musical composition ; Notes on a case of dementia praecox (Bleuler's schizophrenia) and attempts at a musico-psychological treatment -- Aphorisms on music. Food for music-love and -thought ; Short and bitter ; Later aphorisms on music -- The psychology of everyday musical life. Announce opera casts! ; Your child and music ; The BBC's victory over Schoenberg ; Musical criticism (including film music criticism) and other writings (Report) -- Appendix: Two stories and a play. Freedom from freedom (Story) ; Don Juan again (Story) ; Stories, poems and other genres (Report) ; Antiwhatism: a one-act experiment including some moral or other (Play). |
| Abstract | For three or four decades after the Second World War, musical thinking in Britain was dominated by psychology. Among the earliest of the musical Freudians was Hans Keller (1919-85), an émigré from Vienna. For his case studies Keller drew on composers, performers, listeners and critics; and for his general topics he turned to opera, film music, creative character, genius, aesthetics and the issues of everyday musical life. The writing is impressive for its novelty, its insights, and the communicative clarity of its prose. The book includes a large number of aphorisms, two stories and a one-act play on British anti-Semitism. Most of the writings appear here in print for the first time and are drawn from papers held in the Hans Keller Archive at the University Library in Cambridge. |
| General note | Published with the support of the Jewish Music Institute, SOAS, University of London. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN | 0954012313 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Music Stacks | ML423.K445 K45 2003 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |