The practices of western twentieth-and twenty-first-century art music both embody the
potential and create the illusion of an encompassing cosmopolitan (Modernist …

Focusing on a selection of musical works from within three genres–symphony, string quartet,
and the piano repertoire–I argue that the experience of music from the late 20th and early …

This dissertation was motivated by a sense of frustration with many of the existing theoretical
and methodological protocols for the study of art and culture. A review and critique of a wide …

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 …

"[Western Music and Its Others] will be taken as an important book signalling a new turn
within the field. It takes the best features of traditional, rigorous scholarship and brings these …

With the decline in currency of the postmodern, art music culture of the early twenty-first
century seems to have few values left to assert apart from its contemporaneity, its sheer …

In search of methods that provide common theoretical ground for the different disciplines of
music scholarship, I explore the ways in which studying music in the present opens …

How have we come to hear melody as going “up” or “down”? Why does the Western world
predominantly adopt spatial terms such as “high” and “low” to distinguish musical notes …

In a recent" Editorial"(Acta Musicologica 84, no. 1 [2012]) we wrote about the commitment of
the IMS and of this journal to a diverse musi cology of plurals. The history of that commitment …

THE idea that music's social significance is the locus of its value and worth is a widely
accepted transdisciplinary precept. When, in the 1980s, self-identified postmodern …