The value of narratives in human understanding of the world is widely recognized. The
importance of narrative is apparent in varieties of everyday storytelling as well is in written …

Over the past decade or two the rise of the so-called New Musicology—including the work of
such critics as Fred Maus, Susan McClary, and Anthony Newcomb—has fostered renewed …

Narrative theory and popular music are not the most obvious of bedfellows: the former lends
itself primarily to the elaboration (or analysis) of extended narrative structures, while the …

It always struck me as a rather counterintuitive development that narratology should have
been taken up by music scholars to the extent that it was from the mid-1980s onward. 1 Yes …

Is Language a Music? presents broadly ranging explorations of musical reference that
address how and why language cannot be the only measure of meanings. Music, the author …

When listeners talk about their listening experiences, they often refer to music as if it were a
narrative. But can music actually tell a story? Can music be narrative? Traditionally …

As a general rule, the minimal condition of narrativity is the transformation of an object or
state of affairs into something else through a process that requires a certain amount of time …

Within country music's songwriting practices, musical form and harmonic structure often
become functional contributors to a song's story; these combinations of form and theme can …

" Rethinking Music is in two parts. Part 1 focusses on approaches to musical texts, covering
such topics as the relationship of text and context, concepts of unity and meaning in music …

This dissertation is an a/r/tographic inquiry in which I explore how songs and stories about
songwriting can serve as a means for theorizing new ways of conducting research in music …