Constructing Musicology 1st Edition by Alastair Williams ISBN 1003063128 9781003063124

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ISBN 10: 1003063128 
ISBN 13: 9781003063124
Author: Alastair Williams

This title was first published in 2001: Unlike many other academic disciplines, musicology has been somewhat reluctant to explore the possibilities that critical theory might offer to our understanding of music and the ways in which we study it. In recent years, however, both the general impact of theory on humanities research and the wider repertoires now studied on music degree courses have urged a paradigm shift in musicology. Looking at both these trends, Alastair Williams examines and explains the theoretical issues raised by different musics, including the Western canon, popular music, folk music and music by women. A theoretically informed musicology, he argues, can reflect on its own procedures and create strategies for particular problems as they arise. In this sense the book offers a musicology under construction. To appreciate how theoretical discourses function and the interests they serve, it is important to understand their roots. Chapter One begins with a presentation of traditional musicology in the context of Joseph Kerman’s call for a shift from fact-finding to critical interpretation. Discussion then moves to the scrutiny of the bourgeois tradition by Adorno and Dahlhaus. Chapter Two explores Kerman’s critique of structural analysis, together with the impact of poststructuralism on musicology. Awareness of new repertoire and its consequences becomes evident as the book unfolds, with Chapter Three considering music by women and examining how gender is constructed in music. Chapter Four extends this discussion to the field of popular music and the ways in which this genre negotiates identity. Challenges to the dominant values are further explored as Chapter Five looks at how non-European cultures are presented in European music and reflects on perceptions of self and other in ethnomusicology. Chapter Six charts the emergence of modern subjectivity and its formations in music, arguing that musicology should not lose sight of modernity’s critical resources.

Constructing Musicology 1st Table of contents:

1. Traditions
Kerman
Adorno
Dahlhaus
2. Discourses
Structuralism
Poststructuralism
Texts
Semantics
3. Voices
Gendered music
Embodied music
Lacanian psychoanalysis
4. Identities
Critique
Value
Perspectives
5. Places
Orientalism
Ethnomusicology
6. Positions
Modernity
Musicology and postmodernism
Culture
Framing the Fifth
Reconstructing musicology
Notes

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