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Every question springs from an agenda that determines the range of acceptable answers. I am a lawyer, and lawyers have their priors. Developing a framework for interpretation in dialogue with a number of poststructuralist writers, the book goes far beyond applying their thought to the analysis of music by showing the cultural dilemmas to which their work responds, it suggests how musical research already participates in these ideas.

Eliot's 'dissociation of sensibility', and Steven Feld's work in recording the music of the Kaluli people is compared to the treatment of ambient sound in contemporary cinema. Thus, David Lewin's theory of musical perceptions is compared to Richard Rorty's concept of the 'liberal ironist', Susan McClary's feminist narrative of music history is juxtaposed with T.S. In asking a number of fundamental questions about the models through which disciplinary objects in music are constructed, the book suggests unexpected relationships between works of musical scholarship and the cultural networks in which they participate.

Strophes boulez scribd professional#

By linking the institutions that support musical research, including professional associations and universities, to complex historical changes such as globalization and the commodification of knowledge, this book undertakes a critique of musical scholarship as an institutional discourse, while contributing to a general theory of disciplinary structures that goes beyond the limits of any single field.

This book examines the struggle for the authority to speak about music at a time when the humanities are in crisis.