Rethinking Music
Rethinking Music offers a comprehensive re-evaluation of current thinking about music. In this book, 24 distinguished musicologists, music theorists, and ethnomusicologists review different dimensions of musical study, revealing a range of concerns that are shared across the discipline: the nature of musicological practice, its social and ethical dimensions, issues of canon and value, and the relationship between academic study and musical experience.
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Rethinking Music
Rethinking Music offers a comprehensive re-evaluation of current thinking about music. In this book, 24 distinguished musicologists, music theorists, and ethnomusicologists review different dimensions of musical study, revealing a range of concerns that are shared across the discipline: the nature of musicological practice, its social and ethical dimensions, issues of canon and value, and the relationship between academic study and musical experience.
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Rethinking Music

Rethinking Music

Rethinking Music

Rethinking Music

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Rethinking Music offers a comprehensive re-evaluation of current thinking about music. In this book, 24 distinguished musicologists, music theorists, and ethnomusicologists review different dimensions of musical study, revealing a range of concerns that are shared across the discipline: the nature of musicological practice, its social and ethical dimensions, issues of canon and value, and the relationship between academic study and musical experience.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780198790044
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 06/10/1999
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 590
Product dimensions: 9.24(w) x 6.42(h) x 1.18(d)

About the Author

University of Southampton

Table of Contents

Part I.1. Ontologies of Music, Philip V. Bohlman2. Analysis in Context, Jim Samson3. Beyond Privileged Contexts: Intertextuality, Influence, and Dialogue, Kevin Korsyn4. Autonomy/Heteronomy: The Contexts of Musicology, Arnold Whittall5. Going Flat: Post-Hierarchical Music Theory and the Musical Surface, Robert Fink6. The Challenge of Semiotics, Kofi Agawa7. An Experimental Music Theory?, Robert Gjerdingen8. Concepts of Musical Unity, Fred Everett Maus9. How Music Matters: Poetic Content Revisited, Scott Burnham10. Translating Musical Meaning: The Nineteenth-Century Performer as Narrator, John Rink11. Analysing Performance and Performing Analysis, Nicholas Cook12. Composer, Theorist, Composer/Theorist, Joseph DubielPart II.13. The Institutionalization of Musicology: Perspectives of a North American Ethnomusicologist, Bruno Nettl14. Other Musicologies: Exploring Issues and Confronting Practice in India, Regula Burckhardt Qureshi15. The History of Musical Canon, William Weber16. The Historiography of Music: Issues of Past and Present, Leo Treitler17. Reception Theories, Canonic Discourses, and Musical Value, Mark Everist18. The Musical Text, Stanley Boorman19. Finding the Music in Musicology: Performance History and Musical Works, José A. Bowen20. Popular Music, Unpopular Musicology, John Covach21. Gender, Musicology, and Feminism, Suzanne G. Cusick22. Musicology and/as Social Concern: Imagining the Relevant Musicologist, Ralph P. Locke23. The Impact and Ethics of Musical Scholarship, Kay Kaufman Shelemay24. What Do We Want to Teach When We Teach Music? One Apology, Two Short Trips, Three Ethical Dilemmas, and Eighty-Two Questions, Ellen Koskoff
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