Critical Musicological Reflections

Essays in Honour of Derek B. Scott

Stan Hawkins

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9781317157175
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Ethnomusicology

This collection of original essays is in tribute to the work of Derek Scott on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. As one of the leading lights in Critical Musicology, Scott has helped shape the epistemological direction for music research since the late 1980s. There is no doubt that the path taken by the critical musicologist has been a tricky one, leading to new conceptions, interactions, and heated debates during the past two decades. Changes in musicology during the closing decades of the twentieth century prompted the establishment of new sets of theoretical methods that probed at the social and cultural relevance of music, as much as its self-referentiality. All the scholars contributing to this book have played a role in the general paradigmatic shift that ensued in the wake of Kerman's call for change in the 1980s. Setting out to address a range of approaches to theorizing music and promulgating modes of analysis across a wide range of repertories, the essays in this collection can be read as a coming of age of critical musicology through its active dialogue with other disciplines such as sociology, feminism, ethnomusicology, history, anthropology, philosophy, cultural studies, aesthetics, media studies, film music studies, and gender studies. The volume provides music researchers and graduate students with an up-to-date authoritative reference to all matters dealing with the state of critical musicology today.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Dedication Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Music Examples
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Festschrift (Essays in honour of Derek Scott on his sixtieth birthday)
• List of Publications by Derek Scott
• Chapter 1 ‘Great, Scott!’
• Chapter 2 Evidence of Things Not Seen: History, Subjectivities, Music
• Chapter 3 Musical Identities, Learning and Education: Some Cross-cultural Issues
• Chapter 4 Béla Bartók: Reintegrating the Semantic and Syntactic Axes in Duke Bluebeard’s Castle
• Chapter 5 Amusing the Cultivated Classes and Cultivating the Masses: Changes in Concert Repertoires in Nineteenth-century Helsinki
• Chapter 6 From Schizophonia to Paraphonia: On the Cultural Matrix of Digitally Generated Pop-Sounds
• Chapter 7 Material Culture and Decentred Selfhood (Socio-Visual Typologies of Musical Excess)
• Chapter 8 ‘As Fast as One Possibly Can …’: Virtuosity, a Truth of Musical Performance?
• Chapter 9 On Music Criticism and Affect: Two Instances of the Disaffected Acoustic Imaginary
• Chapter 10 The Development of Bob Dylan’s Rhythmic Sense: ‘The Times They Were a’Changin’ (1958–64)
• Chapter 11 How Genres are Born, Change, Die: Conventions, Communities and Diachronic Processes
• Chapter 12 Anatomy of the Encounter: Intercultural Analysis as Relational Musicology
• Chapter 13 One Way of Feeling: Contextualizing a Hermeneutics of Spatialization
• Chapter 14 The Virtuoso Body; Or, the Two Births of Musical Performance
• Epilogue
• Index