Description
Where is the academic study of music today, and what paths should it take into the future? Should we be looking at how music relates to society and constructs meaning through it, rather than how it transcends the social? Can we ‘remix’ our discipline and attempt to address all musics on an equal basis, without splitting ourselves in advance into subgroups of ‘musicologists’, ‘theorists’, and ‘ethnomusicologists’? These are some of the crucial issues that Nicholas Cook has raised since he emerged in the 1990s as one of the UK’s leading and most widely read voices in critical musicology. In this book, collaborators and former students of Cook pursue these questions and others raised by his work—from notation, historiography, and performance to the place of music in multimedia forms such as virtual reality and video games, analysing both how it can bring people together and the ways in which it has failed to do so.
Table of Contents
Introduction: a hedgehog in fox’s clothing
Matthew Pritchard, Ross Cole, and Ananay Aguilar
PART I: MEDIA, NOTATION, AND PERFORMANCE
1. Transforming Musical (Multi)media: Virtual Reality and the Goals of Music Research in the 21st-Century Humanities
Nicola Dibben
2. Playing Along to What? Video Game Music and the Metaphor Model
Michiel Kamp
3. ‘A Repertoire of Means for Imagining Music’: Notation Cultures and the Musical Imagination
Floris Schuiling
4. Rethinking Classical Sound Recordings: Creativities Beyond the Score
Georgia Volioti
5. Between Practice and Theory: Performance Studies and/as Artistic Research
John Rink
6. Moral Judgement in Response to Performances of Western Art Music
Daniel Leech-Wilkinson
PART II: MEANINGS AND VALUES IN HISTORY
7. Vocality, Orality, and Disciplinarity: A Case Study of Gendered Categorizations in the Ancient Near East
Anija Dokter
8. ‘All This Requires but a Moment of Open Revelation’! Johann Gottfried Herder, Robert Lachmann, and the Global Musicological Moment
Philip V. Bohlman
9. Duetting with Bartók and Others: Iva Bittová’s Post-Revival ‘Personal Folk Music’
Julie Brown
10. Writing on Living Composers and the Problem of Advocacy: Failure and the Experimental Work of Mauricio Kagel
Björn Heile
11. Music and Epistemological Humility: Looking Back to (and Forward with) Paul Bekker
Matthew Pritchard
12. Towards an Ecological History of MusicRoss Cole
Afterword: Knowing Nick
Eric Clarke
