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Critical Music Historiography: Probing Canons, Ideologies and Institutions (Paperback)
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Critical Music Historiography: Probing Canons, Ideologies and Institutions (Paperback)
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During the past two decades, there has emerged a growing need to
reconsider the objects, axioms and perspectives of writing music
history. A certain suspicion towards Francois Lyotard's grand
narratives, as a sign of what he diagnosed as our 'postmodern
condition', has become more or less an established and unquestioned
point of departure among historians. This suspicion, at its most
extreme, has led to a radical conclusion of the 'end of history' in
the work of postmodern scholars such as Jean Baudrillard and
Francis Fukuyama. The contributors to Critical Music Historiography
take a step back and argue that the radical view of the
'impossibility of history', as well as the unavoidable ideology of
any history, are counter-productive points of departure for
historical scholarship. It is argued that metanarratives in history
are still possible and welcome, even if their limitations are
acknowledged. Foucault, Lyotard and others should be taken into
account but systematized viewpoints and methods for a more critical
and multi-faceted re-evaluation of the past through research are
needed. As to the metanarratives of music history, they must avoid
the pitfalls of evolutionism, hagiography, and teleology, all
hallmarks of traditional historiography. In this volume the
contributors put these methods and principles into practice. The
chapters tackle under-researched and non-conventional domains of
music history as well as rethinking older historiographical
concepts such as orientalism and nationalism, and consequently
introduce new concepts such as occidentalism and transnationalism.
The volume is a challenging collection of work that stakes out a
unique territory for itself among the growing body of work on
critical music history.
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