This paper explores the issue of semiotic analysis of music from the perspective of Roland Barthes. The semiotic analysis of music turns out to be difficult because music is not a symbolic system. Signification, which is the main subject of semiotics, is not present in music. Barthes’s semiotic study of music has important achievements for music and semiotics because, first, this approach leads to an innovative analysis of music, and second, it expands the possibilities of semiotics in the study of artistic productions. We have drawn on various branches of the humanities, such as philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the social sciences, to explore this topic. Moreover, this paper has been written using bibliographic sources with a descriptive-analytical approach. Roland Barthes focuses his musical analysis on the works of Schumann and Schubert. Barthes uses the two concepts of dilettantism and the untimely to examine the music described in this article. Through these studies, this study attempts to rethink the issue of the separation between modern art and society. By highlighting the issue of the body through the analysis of music, Barthes finds a way out of this separation that is neither a return to the past nor an insistence on modern logic. By separating music from the world of pure ideas and connecting it to the body, we can achieve a kind of “physical logic of art” that we find Barthes uses as a force to break away from modern elitist art without falling into the trap of repeating stereotypes and collective beliefs.
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Shelechi, M., & Noghrehchi, H. (2022). Amateurism as a Moral and Political Act in Music
A Look at the Semiotic Analysis of Music by Roland Barthes. Sociology of Art and Literature, 13(2), 131-153. doi: 10.22059/jsal.2022.337590.666123
MLA
Mohammad Shelechi; Hessam Noghrehchi. "Amateurism as a Moral and Political Act in Music
A Look at the Semiotic Analysis of Music by Roland Barthes". Sociology of Art and Literature, 13, 2, 2022, 131-153. doi: 10.22059/jsal.2022.337590.666123
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Shelechi, M., Noghrehchi, H. (2022). 'Amateurism as a Moral and Political Act in Music
A Look at the Semiotic Analysis of Music by Roland Barthes', Sociology of Art and Literature, 13(2), pp. 131-153. doi: 10.22059/jsal.2022.337590.666123
VANCOUVER
Shelechi, M., Noghrehchi, H. Amateurism as a Moral and Political Act in Music
A Look at the Semiotic Analysis of Music by Roland Barthes. Sociology of Art and Literature, 2022; 13(2): 131-153. doi: 10.22059/jsal.2022.337590.666123
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