Remixing Music Studies : Essays in Honour of Nicholas Cook

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. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Contents Acknowledgements List of contributors Introduction: a hedgehog in fox’s clothing PART I Media, notation, and performance 1 Transforming musical (multi)media: virtual reality and the goals of music research in the twenty-first-century humanities 2 Playing along to what? Video game music and the metaphor model 3 ‘A repertoire of means for imagining music’: notation cultures and the musical imagination 4 Rethinking classical sound recordings: creativities beyond the score 5 Between practice and theory: performance studies and/as artistic research 6 Moral judgement in response to performances of Western art music PART II Meanings and values in history 7 Vocality, orality, and disciplinarity: a case study of gendered categorizations in the ancient Near East 8 ‘All this requires but a moment of open revelation’! Johann Gottfried Herder, Robert Lachmann, and the global musicological moment 9 Duetting with Bartók and others: Iva Bittová’s post-revival ‘personal folk music’ 10 Writing on living composers and the problem of advocacy: failure and the experimental work of Mauricio Kagel 11 Music and epistemological humility: looking back to (and forward with) Paul Bekker 12 Towards an ecological history of music Afterword: knowing Nick Index "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 1990's 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"-- Provided by publisher This edited volume brings together some of today's most exciting music scholars to engage with the multifaceted body of work produced by Nicholas Cook over the last thirty years.