Disciplining Music: Musicology and Its Canons

Provocative and timely, "Disciplining Music" confronts a topic that has sparked considerable debate in recent years: how do musicians and music scholars "discipline" music in their efforts to confer order and meaning on it? This collection of essays addresses this issue by formulating questions about music's canons -rules that measure and order, negotiate cultural constraints, reconstruct the past, and shape the future. Written by scholars representing the fields of historical musicology, ethnomusicology, and music theory, many of the essays tug and push at the very boundaries of these traditional division within the study of music.

CONTENIDO:

Preface
1. Prologue, Disciplining Music (Katherine Bergeron)
2.The Canons in the Musicology Toolbox (Dan Michael Randel)
3. Sophie Drinker's History (Ruth A. Solie)
4. Rethinking Musical Culture: Canonic Reformulations in a Post Tonal Age (Robert P. Morgan)
5. Cultural Dialogics and Jazz: A White Historian Signifies (Gary Tomlinson)
6. History and Works That Have No History: Reviving Rossini's Neapolitan Operas (Philip Gossett)
7. Ethnomusicology's Challenge to the Canon: the Canon's Challenge to Ethnomusicology (Philip V. Bohlman)
8. Mozart and the Ethnomusicological Study of Western Culture: An Essay in Four Movements (Brune Nettl)
9. Hierarchical Unity, Plural Unities: Toward a Reconciliation (Richard Cohn, Douglas Dempster)
10. A Lifetime of Chants (Katherine Bergeron)
11. Epilogue: Musics and Canons (Philip V. Bohlman)
Contributors
Index