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Keeping Score: Music, Disciplinarity, Culture
David Schwarz, Anahid Kassabian, and Lawrence Siegel (editors)
A snapshot of musicology in the middle of reinventing itself. This edited collection argues for a broader, more interdisciplinary music studies, its essays ranging across traditional and new musicology, music and psychoanalysis, film music, popular-music studies, and gay and lesbian studies — part of a series expressly concerned with the shifting boundaries between academic disciplines. Read it as a document of a particular scholarly moment rather than a general introduction: the essays are written for specialists and assume fluency in 1990s cultural theory, so their value now is partly historical, showing how musicologists were reopening the questions they asked. It belongs on the shelf beside the foundational new musicology of Susan McClary and Lawrence Kramer that defined the wider turn it captures.
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The editors
David Schwarz, Anahid Kassabian and Lawrence Siegel assembled this volume from across music scholarship and media studies. Kassabian in particular became a notable voice in the study of film music and listening; the trio's shared interest was in loosening musicology from its traditional focus on the notated canon.
The book
Keeping Score is an edited essay collection arguing for a broader, more interdisciplinary music studies. Its contributions span traditional and "new" musicology, music and psychoanalysis, film music, popular-music studies, and gay and lesbian studies, and it appears in a series explicitly concerned with the shifting boundaries of academic disciplines.
How to read it
Read it as a document of a particular scholarly moment, not as a general introduction. The essays are written for specialists and assume familiarity with the debates of 1990s cultural theory; their value now is partly historical, showing how the questions musicologists ask were being reopened.
For more context
It sits alongside foundational "new musicology" texts by Susan McClary and Lawrence Kramer that defined the wider turn it documents.
Sources
- Type
- Book
- Author / Maker
- David Schwarz, Anahid Kassabian, and Lawrence Siegel (editors)
- ISBN
- None
- Shelf
- Essays
- Location
- Colorado