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Music Research Between Tradition and Innovation, Friday Advanced Seminar
This is a fascinating time to be a music scholar. While there are still strong links with traditional approaches to our subject in such areas as source studies, archival work, projects featuring compositional process, historiography and philology, in the last ten years there has been a kind of rift, perhaps even a small chasm, developing between these practices and a range of new views based on such things as critical theory, cultural studies, sound studies, work on gender and sexuality, colonialism and many related topics. Many of these more recent approaches seek to critique and even dismantle traditional narratives, and problematize every aspect of the enterprise.
This seminar consists of three class sessions (Oct. 12, Nov. 2, and Dec. 7) and a conference to explore the kinds of work being done in musicology and related disciplines. It further engages and evaluates the aims and claims of different approaches to understanding. The conference, to be held on Dec. 14-15, brings together students, scholars and practitioners from the United States and the Czech Republic and is co-sponsored by the NYU Department of Music, NYU Prague and Charles University.
The course will feature selected readings from contemporary scholarship. Most importantly, all participants will be required to participate in discussions and be rigorously prepared to characterize and situate their own research projects in terms of the spectrum of possibilities.