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Author_Giles Hooper
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Contemporary Musicology
Critical Musicology
critical theory
Discursive Aim
Discursive Claims
Discursive Practice
epistemology of music
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Esthesic Level
Feminist Musicologies
Habermasian discourse
Ideal Speech Situation
Immanent Structural Features
Institutionalized Discourse
Kramer's Writing
Kramer’s Writing
Mahler's Music
Mahler's Ninth Symphony
mahlers
Mahler’s Music
Mahler’s Ninth Symphony
mediation in music studies
music scholarship methodology
Musical Physiognomy
Musicological Practice
Narrative Archetype
ninth
Ninth Symphony
Postmodern Musicology
Privileged Scholar
Rose Subotnik
Schopenhauer's Theory
social relevance of musicology
Structural Trope
symphony
Transcendental Argument
Van Den Toorn
Vice Versa
Product details
- ISBN 9780754652113
- Weight: 385g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jun 2006
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In The Discourse of Musicology, Giles Hooper considers a number of issues central to recent debates about the nature and direction of contemporary musicology. The first part of the book seeks to situate and critically rethink the alleged 'postmodern' turn in musical scholarship. Then, in attempting to overcome some of the problems typically associated with postmodern theory, Hooper draws on the work of Jürgen Habermas in order to interpret musicology as a form of institutionalized discourse and to propose a normative framework for the kind of knowledge in which it can legitimately issue. The second part of the book focuses on the concepts of 'mediation' and the 'music itself' and engages with the work of influential critical theorist, Theodor Adorno, and the contemporary musicologist, Lawrence Kramer. Finally Hooper compares and contrasts a number of different approaches to Mahler's Ninth Symphony. The author's underlying aim throughout is to question whether, and how, it is possible to develop a mode of musicological enquiry that is both epistemologically robust and at the same time capable of answering the demand that it demonstrate its social, political and ethical relevance.
Dr Giles Hooper is Lecturer in Music at the University of Liverpool, UK.
