Within popular music there are entire genres (jazz “standards”), styles (hip hop), techniques
(sampling), and practices (covers) that rely heavily on references between music of different …

Until today, the most traditional media for music notation—scores, parts, or “music books” in
general—played an essential role in musicology, providing the essential core of information …

This volume explores the possibilities of cognate music theory, a concept introduced by
musicologist John Walter Hill to describe culturally and historically situated music theory …

Transdisciplinary and intermedial analysis of the experience of music. Nowadays musical
semiotics no longer ignores the fundamental challenges raised by cognitive sciences …

The Routledge Handbook of Music Signification captures the richness and complexity of the
field, presenting 30 essays by recognized international experts that reflect current …

In contradistinction to common adages proclaiming music's inability to represent anything
other than itself, there are remarkably complex ways in which identities—both embedded …

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 …

Commonly said to embody the'urbane'and'refined'lifestyle of metropolitan Tokyo and to
prefigure the transnational and consumerist characteristics of today's mainstream J-Pop …

Regardless of the type of text or its genre, intertextuality generally implies the 'participation of
a text in the discursive space of a culture'(Jonathan Culler). Intertextuality asserts that each …

This dissertation investigates the relation of language to music. In particular, it probes the
manner in which discursive claims on music are adjudicated: How do we apply critical and …