Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Hallelujah effect, Cohen's secret song, and the music industry -- Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah and the other Hallelujahs : from Handel's Hallelujah chorus to the Hallel Psalms -- On male desire and music : misogyny, love, and the beauty of men -- "Covering" Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah : music makes the song from John Cale to kd lang -- "You don't really care for music, do ya?" -- Performance practice and the Hallelujah effect -- Adorno's phenomenology : radio physiognomy and music -- Mousik�e techn�e : on philosophy and the poetic practice of "music" -- The spirit of music in the birth of tragedy : Nietzsche's phenomenological investigations of music and word -- Nietzsche and Beethoven: on the "becoming-human-of-dissonance".

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