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Keeping Score: Music, Disciplinarity, Culture (Knowledge: Disciplinarity and Beyond)
Schwarz
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Description for Keeping Score: Music, Disciplinarity, Culture (Knowledge: Disciplinarity and Beyond)
Paperback. This diverse collection of essays argues for and demonstrates the effort to redefine the methods, goals and scope of musical scholarship. Influenced by ongoing debates about disciplinarity, it explores the emerging and receding paradigms in the field. Editor(s): Schwarz, David; etc.; Kassabian, Anahid (Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Fordham University, USA); Siegel, Lawrence. Series: Knowledge: Disciplinarity & Beyond. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations, music. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 544.
The study of music is ancient, but the disciplined study of music dates back only some two centuries, and began by adapting discourse from pre-existing methods of science and the values of the arts. In the course of the 20th-century, such fields as musicology, ethnomusicology, music theory and composition have become separate disciplines, each taught and perpetuated by their own professional societies. Music has thus followed the common tendency of Western culture to divide its experience into branches of thought, but is has not yet become saturated with the self-critical historical scholarship that now dominates other disciplines. This diverse collection ... Read more
The study of music is ancient, but the disciplined study of music dates back only some two centuries, and began by adapting discourse from pre-existing methods of science and the values of the arts. In the course of the 20th-century, such fields as musicology, ethnomusicology, music theory and composition have become separate disciplines, each taught and perpetuated by their own professional societies. Music has thus followed the common tendency of Western culture to divide its experience into branches of thought, but is has not yet become saturated with the self-critical historical scholarship that now dominates other disciplines. This diverse collection ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Virginia Press Virginia
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Series
Knowledge: Disciplinarity & Beyond
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813917009
SKU
V9780813917009
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