Keeping Score: Music, Disciplinarity, Culture - Paperback

by David Schwarz (Editor), Anahid Kassabian (Editor)

Keeping Score is a diverse collection of essays that argues for and demonstrates the current effort to redefine the methods, goals, and scope of musical scholarship. This volume gives voice to new directions in music studies, including traditional and "new" musicology, music and psychoanalysis, music and film, popular music studies, and gay and lesbian studies. These essays speak to music study from within its own language and enter into important conversations already taking place across disciplinary boundaries throughout the academy.

Back Jacket

The study of music is ancient, but the disciplined study of music dates back only some two centuries. Such study began by basing its discourse on the assumptions and methods of science and on the values of the arts.

Author Biography

David Schwarz is Joseph E. and Grace W. Valentine Professor of Music at Amherst College. Anahid Kassabian is Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University. Lawrence Siegel is a composer and teacher working in Westmoreland, New Hampshire, and Minneapolis.