Background: While art, entertainment, and technology trend towards the audiovisual,
towards the synesthetic, it remains difficult to encompass multi-sensory media in any single …

This dissertation reconsiders a central matter in the field of modernism: the replacement of
religion with art in the symbolist and post-symbolist domains. It argues that music was critical …

This thesis explores ways in which formal music analysis can be put to productive political
use in various diverse social contexts, ranging from music of European modernism to music …

From our first social bonding as infants to the funeral rites that mark our passing, music plays
an important role in our lives, bringing us closer to one another. InThe Music between Us …

This chapter explores some of the possibilities offered by various forms of music journalism
and criticism for the writing of popular music history. It considers some key contributors to the …

Despite its demonstrable value to wider considerations of culture and cultural performance,
the scholarly study of popular music has remained confined largely to those periodicals that …

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 …

Songs are always interesting objects to study, because they involve text (often with a very
particular structure), music (also with special features), and context (often quite elaborate) …

In critiquing the humanism of the Anthropocene, scholars have proposed multiple “-cenes” of
their own (ie the Capitalocene, Plantationocene, and Necrocene). However, authors often …

Musicologists have traditionally treated music notation as a representation of musical
'works'. In the performative turn, conversely, it was argued that the score is not the music …