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Nineteenth-Century Music
Listening to the Self: The Shawshank Redemption and the Technology of Music
Daniel K. L. Chua
19th-Century Music, Vol. 34 No. 3, Spring 2011; (pp. 341-355) DOI: 10.1525/ncm.2011.34.3.341
Daniel K. L. Chua
Daniel K. L. Chua is Head of the School of Humanities and professor of music at the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning. His recent articles include “Beethoven's Other Humanism” (JAMS) and “Rioting with Stravinsky: A Particular Analysis of the Rite of Spring” (Music Analysis).
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Abstract

Music has often been used to symbolize and express ontological experiences. This article explores a mode of nineteenth-century self-audition where music captures a glimpse of the freedom that lies at the core of the subject. This mode of listening has intensified with the development of modern technology and is still prevalent in constructing the identity of the self. The opera scene from the Shawshank Redemption not only is an example of this special effect, but provides a narrative of how music achieves this affect, creating an ideal and virtual self through sound technology.

Keywords
  • Shawshank Redemption
  • Romanticism
  • subjectivity
  • freedom
  • sound technology
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Listening to the Self: The Shawshank Redemption and the Technology of Music
Daniel K. L. Chua
19th-Century Music, Vol. 34 No. 3, Spring 2011; (pp. 341-355) DOI: 10.1525/ncm.2011.34.3.341
Daniel K. L. Chua
Daniel K. L. Chua is Head of the School of Humanities and professor of music at the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning. His recent articles include “Beethoven's Other Humanism” (JAMS) and “Rioting with Stravinsky: A Particular Analysis of the Rite of Spring” (Music Analysis).
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Listening to the Self: The Shawshank Redemption and the Technology of Music
Daniel K. L. Chua
19th-Century Music, Vol. 34 No. 3, Spring 2011; (pp. 341-355) DOI: 10.1525/ncm.2011.34.3.341
Daniel K. L. Chua
Daniel K. L. Chua is Head of the School of Humanities and professor of music at the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning. His recent articles include “Beethoven's Other Humanism” (JAMS) and “Rioting with Stravinsky: A Particular Analysis of the Rite of Spring” (Music Analysis).
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