Theorists and musicologists have asked what particular musical works mean, what particular
musical objects represent, what they narrate or disclose, and how those meanings got there …

This volume addresses the perceived gap between symbolic interaction and
ethnomusicological approaches to the study of music. It seeks to bring the fields closer by …

Intermediality can be broadly defined as “the participation of more than one medium of
expression in the signification of a human artefact”(Wolf, Musicalization 1). It became a …

This essay examines some of the methodological problems associated with the analysis of
popular music in an academic context. As it is currently conceived, interdisciplinary thought …

If Raymond Monelle's twenty-first-century, topic-theory-inspired sense of music 'out-
historicizes the historians'(Michael Spitzer, review of Monelle, The Sense of Music: Semiotic …

This chapter examines the perception and understanding of post-classical (or
“postminimalist”) music and its compatibility with narrative approaches to music. The main …

The essay raises some basic theoretical issues of word and music studies with a view to
elucidating musicalized fiction as a special case of musicalized literature. It pleads for an …

In a recent strand of musicological discourse the common-sense distinction between text
and performance has turned into a dichotomy precisely as a result of the determined effort to …

What would contemporary music scholarship look like if it was no longer imprinted with the
disciplinary assumptions, boundaries and divisions inherited from the last century? This …

My interpretive work explores how a cultural-critical study can be merged with a music-
theoretical analysis. I have developed an analytic method that allows me to explore music …