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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Kevin Ernest Korsyn |
| ISBN: | 0195104544 9780195104547 0195181646 9780195181647 |
| OCLC Number: | 48958059 |
| Description: | viii, 221 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Musical research in crisis: the tower of Babel and the ministry of truth -- Search for an antimethod: begin at the impasses -- The formation of disciplinary identities -- The objects of musical research (1) -- The objects of musical research (2) -- Media conditions -- Music and social antagonisms -- Ethics and the political in musical research. |
| Responsibility: | Kevin Korsyn. |
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Abstract:
By linking the institutions that support musical research, including professional associations and universities, to historical changes such as globalization and the commodification of knowledge, Korsyn undertakes a critique of musical scolarship as an institutional discourse, while contributing to a general theory of disciplinary structures.
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<br>"Korsyn's assessments of different music scholars are often insightful and unpredictable."--Journal of the American Musicological Society<p><br>
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