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 American musical is a paradox. On stage or screen, musicals at once hold a dominant
and a contested place in the worlds of entertainment, art, and scholarship. Born from am …

Influenced by methodological trends in contemporary cultural history, recent writings in
music history now share a common and very basic concern: to reconcile the desire to treat …

" 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 …

LATELY, ACROSS THE HUMANITIES, HISTORICISM in its many guises has been in retreat—
a retreat that music studies has in some respects hastened. This collection of essays asks …

Musical narrative, its defining features, scope, boundaries has been contested terrain for a
generation within the fields of music theory and musicology. Anthony Newcomb has argued …

The near-subliminal throb of a stuttering Roland drum machine; the chainsaw buzz of an
electric guitar subdued by an oppressive silence; sliding parallel organ chords and a reedy …

How do we know what notes a composer intended in a given piece?--how those notes
should be played and sung?--the nature of musical life in Bach's Leipzig, Schubert's …

The transnational character of the literate musical community in the United States created an
environment in which language barriers, ideological biases, and other potential sources of …

" The outstanding originality of this book lies in the detail and perspicuity with which
interrelations are traced between texts, it even seems that relations sometimes work …