Aesthetic Listening Rock Melancholy, Deconstruction and Sugar Blues

Abstract

This paper aims to expose an aesthetic of listening, starting from the diverse proposals 
of Jacques Derrida related to tone and music, and the presence of the latter in writing, 
which is seen as percussion and exposition of senses, of which spreading generates one 
of the “definitions” of deconstruction proposed by Derrida himself. This “definition” 
is referred by the philosopher by saying that in case of giving a “definition” for 
deconstruction, it would be: “several languages”. Such variations would lead to the 
necessity of an aesthetic of listening that would make possible the question: How 
to be listened by a philosopher? The relation of deconstruction with the expression 
of melancholy in rock and with sugar, seen as sweet tone and medicine, in blues; is 
derived from the inference of these two dimensions of audition that popular music 
could expose in comparison to art music.