Ashgate Contemporary Thinkers on Critical Musicology Series: Ashgate Contemporary Thinkers on Critical Musicology Series
About the Book Series
The titles in this series bring together a selection of previously published and some unpublished essays by leading authorities in the field of critical musicology. The essays are chosen from a wide range of publications and so make key works available in a more accessible form. The authors have all made a selection of their own work in one volume with an introduction which discusses the essays chosen and puts them into context. A full bibliography points the reader to other publications which might not be included in the volume for reasons of space. The previously published essays are published using the facsimile method of reproduction to retain their original pagination, so that students and scholars can easily reference the essays in their original form.
Musical Belongings: Selected Essays
1st Edition
By Richard Middleton
June 12, 2019
One of the pioneers of popular music studies, Richard Middleton has made an important contribution not only to this particular field but also to the critical and cultural theory of music more generally. Sixteen of his essays, dating from the late 1970s to the present day, have been selected for ...
Sound Judgment: Selected Essays
1st Edition
By Richard Leppert
June 12, 2019
The essays in Sound Judgment span the full career of Richard Leppert, from his earliest to work that appears here for the first time, on subjects drawn from early modernity to the present concerning music both popular and classical, European and North American. Noted for his path-breaking ...
Critical Musicology and the Responsibility of Response: Selected Essays
1st Edition
By Lawrence Kramer
June 07, 2019
Why does music move us? Lawrence Kramer suggests we should ask this old question in a different way: what is responsible for our response to music, and to what is our response responsible? The essays in this outstanding collection explore this question amongst many others, and by finding cultural ...
The Work of Music Theory: Selected Essays
1st Edition
By Thomas Christensen
April 05, 2016
This collection brings together an anthology of articles by Thomas Christensen, one of the leading historians of music theory active today. Published over the span of the past 25 years, the selected articles provide a historical conspectus about a range of vital topics in the history of music ...
Music, Structure, Thought: Selected Essays
1st Edition
By James Hepokoski
August 28, 2009
Among the most original and provocative musicological writers of his generation, James Hepokoski has elaborated new paradigms of inquiry for both music history and music theory. Advocating fundamental shifts of methodological reorientation within the quest for potential musical meanings, his work ...
Reading Music: Selected Essays
1st Edition
By Susan McClary
November 28, 2007
This outstanding collection of Susan McClary's work exemplifies her contribution to a bridging of the gap between historical context, culture and musical practice. The selection includes essays which have had a major impact on the field and others which are less known and reproduced here from ...
Music, Performance, Meaning: Selected Essays
1st Edition
By Nicholas Cook
November 21, 2007
This selection of sixteen of Nicholas Cook's essays covers the period from 1987 to 2004 and brings out the development of the author's ideas over these years. In particular the two keywords of the title -Meaning and Performance- represent critical directions that expand to the point that, by the ...
Taking Popular Music Seriously: Selected Essays
1st Edition
By Simon Frith
July 30, 2007
As a sociologist Simon Frith takes the starting point that music is the result of the play of social forces, whether as an idea, an experience or an activity. The essays in this important collection address these forces, recognising that music is an effect of a continuous process of negotiation, ...
Music and Historical Critique: Selected Essays
1st Edition
By Gary Tomlinson
May 18, 2007
Music and Historical Critique provides a definitive collection of Gary Tomlinson's influential studies on critical musicology, with the watchword throughout being history. This collection gathers his most innovative essays and lectures, some of them published here for the first time, along with an ...