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. "Fortunately, in a blaze of good-humored ...scholarship, [this] book helps brains unaccustomed to thinking about the future without jeopardizing the past imagine the wonder classical-music life might become if it embraced all people and all musics."--Laurence Vittes, Los Angeles Reader "These essays will force us to rethink our position on many issues...[and] advance musicology into the twenty-first century."--Giulio Ongaro, American Music Teacher With essays by Katherine Bergeron, Philip V. Bohlman, Richard Cohn and Douglas Dempster, Philip Gossett, Robert P. Morgan, Bruno Nettl, Don Michael Randel, Ruth A. Solie, and Gary Tomlinson.

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

Confronting 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 seek to push at the very boundaries of these traditional divisions within the study of music.