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 …

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 this article I consider implications for the body inherent in two aspects of contemporary
musical practice: normative and computer-assisted. I separate music into bodily action and …

Unter dem Begriff „kulturelle Musikwissenschaft “versammeln sich seit über einem halben
Jahrhundert eine Reihe musikwissenschaftlicher Visionen, die alle ein gemeinsames Ziel …

This dissertation poses the question,“How does music mean?” If we acknowledge that music
exists in the material world as a complex sound wave only, we must wonder how music, as …

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

Using as its platform Philip Tagg's 2011 article 'Caught on the back foot: Epistemic inertia
and visible music', this essay identifies gaps in the literature of popular music studies. In …

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 …

A distinct if diverse musical research area has begun to emerge in recent years. While there
is enough common ground to define it as a research field, its objects and themes are not yet …

The literature on the evolution of music is quite sparse, and the topic is often mentioned only
in passing as part of larger proposals concerning the origin of language and the emergence …