Heidegger has told us that language is the house of Being, and in that house it is language that speaks us. But music does not speak, nor does it speak us. Music composes us when we listen to it and when we write about it. As a deterritorial force, music has no meaning. Meaning is written into music.
Writing s always only a game played with ungraspable reality . . .
Best and Kellner address the way Rap gets written into the political landscape. Erickson examines the difficulty criticism has had with its attempts to territorialize music. Whalley investigates the way avant-garde music is territorialized by the university structure, and is taken away from its mass cultural context. Robe, on the other hand, shows how avant-garde technique s can function within a mass cultural context without necessarily being territorialized. In the content and style of his writing, Schneidermann creates an analog for the deterritorialized position he ascribes for music.