Remixing Music Studies: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Cook

by Ananay Aguilar (Editor), Ross Cole (Editor), Matthew Pritchard (Editor), Eric Clarke (Editor)

Overview

Where is the academic study of music today, and what paths should it take into the future? Should we be looking at how music relates to society and constructs meaning through it, rather than how it transcends the social? Can we ‘remix’ our discipline and attempt to address all musics on an equal basis, without splitting ourselves in advance into subgroups of ‘musicologists’, ‘theorists’, and ‘ethnomusicologists’? These are some of the crucial issues that Nicholas Cook has raised since he emerged in the 1990s as one of the UK’s leading and most widely-read voices in critical musicology. In this book, collaborators and former students of Cook pursue these questions, and others raised by his work––from notation, historiography, and performance to the place of music in multimedia forms such as virtual reality and video games, analysing both how it can bring people together and the ways in which it has failed to do so.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367501334
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/29/2022
Pages:	234
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ananay Aguilar is a scholar and consultant in copyright and cultural policy affiliated with the Centre of Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) at the University of Cambridge. Her book on the legal rights of performers in the UK music industry is under contract with Palgrave.

Ross Cole is a Junior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. His research interests extend from the late 19^th century up to the present, with a particular focus on popular culture and experimentalism. He has just finished the manuscript of his first book, entitled The Folk: Music, Modernity, and the Political Imagination.

Matthew Pritchard is Lecturer in Musical Aesthetics at the University of Leeds. He has published on aspects of music aesthetics from c.1750–1930 in Germany, and is working on a book examining the aesthetics of this period through the lens of the ‘history of emotions’. He also writes on and translates the songs and musical essays of Rabindranath Tagore.

Eric Clarke is Heather Professor of Music at the University of Oxford, and a Professorial Fellow of Wadham College. He has published on topics in the psychology of music and related areas. His books include Empirical Musicology (2004), Ways of Listening (2005), Music and Mind in Everyday Life (2010), Music and Consciousness (2011), and Distributed Creativity (2017).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix

List of contributors x

Introduction: a hedgehog in fox's clothing Matthew Pritchard Ross Cole Ananay Aguilar 1

Part I Media, notation, and performance 17

1 Transforming musical (multi)media: virtual reality and the goals of music research in the twenty-first-century humanities Nicola Dibben 19

2 Playing along to what? Video game music and the metaphor model Michiel Kamp 32

3 'A repertoire of means for imagining music': notation cultures and the musical imagination Floris Schuiling 47

4 Rethinking classical sound recordings: creativities beyond the score Georgia Volioti 61

5 Between practice and theory: performance studies and/as artistic research John Rink 76

6 Moral judgement in response to performances of Western art music Daniel Leech-Wilkinson 91

Part II Meanings and values in history 113

7 Vocality, orality, and disciplinarity: a case study of gendered categorizations in the ancient Near East Anija Dokter 115

8 'All this requires but a moment of open revelation'! Johann Gottfried Herder, Robert Lachmann, and the global musicological moment Philip V. Bohlman 131

9 Duetting with Bartók and others: Iva Bittová's post-revival 'personal folk music' Julie Brown 148

10 Writing on living composers and the problem of advocacy: failure and the experimental work of Mauricio Kagel Björn Heile 164

11 Music and epistemological humility: looking back to (and forward with) Paul Bekker Matthew Pritchard 180

12 Towards an ecological history of music Ross Cole 194

Afterword: knowing Nick Eric Clarke 210

Index 216

Editorial Reviews

"If anyone deserves this kind of Festschrift it's Nick Cook, whose work—provocative and inspiring—is seminal to present day thought about music."

- Lawrence Kramer, Distinguished Professor of English and Music, Fordham University

"This collection of essays serves as a splendid tribute to Nick Cook, revealing the widespread influence his work has had on so many diverse aspects of the study of music. The authors engage spiritedly not only with Cook’s ideas on the production, performance, and theory of music in relation to traditional practices and multimedia technologies, but also respond to the social and ethical concerns that characterize his work."

- Derek B. Scott, Professor of Critical Musicology, University of Leeds

"This is a wonderful collection that offers a rich contribution to the field. The chapters take Cook’s work as a starting point, and work, play, or move with the models he has developed in highly productive ways."

– Freya Jarman, Reader in Music, University of Liverpool

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