This chapter presents theoretical deliberations and two case studies that demonstrate how
conceptualizations of word-music relations and of the controversial classical-popular binary …

The essay continues Steven Paul Scher's well-known and influential typological reflections
on the field of word and music relations, which he has devised since the late 1960s, and …

As both popular media and media of the popular, words and music occupy endless streams
of media combinations that forge both ordinary and extraordinary intermedial relationships …

Intermedial Modernism: Music, Dance, and Sound examines how twentieth-century
combinations of literature with sound-based arts like music, dance, and radio emerged from …

1 The medium of music represents a pioneering force of crossing boundaries on cultural,
ethnic, racial, and national levels. Critics such as Wilfried Raussert and Reinhold …

Umberto Eco's understanding of postmodernism as the" ironic rethinking" of the past is one
that insists-by definition-on a contextualist reading of cultural texts. In this sense, then, an …

The practices of western twentieth-and twenty-first-century art music both embody the
potential and create the illusion of an encompassing cosmopolitan (Modernist …

Although music has been conceived as an art of pure emotions and devoid of concepts, it
has always gained its significance in intermedial contexts. The sense and impact of music …

In this article, I theorize a new conception of musical meaning, based on JL Austin's theory of
performative utterances in his treatise How to Do Things with Words. Austin theorizes …

Although music has been conceived as an art of pure emotions and devoid of concepts, it
has always gained its significance in intermedial contexts. The sense and impact of music …