Keeping Score

by Schwarz, David; Kassabian, Anahid; Siegel, Lawrence

• ISBN13: 9780813917009
• ISBN10: 081391700X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of Virginia Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Music, Disciplinarity, and Interdisciplinarity	p. 1
Rethinking Contemporary Music Theory	p. 13
Terminal Prestige: The Case of Avant-Garde Music Composition	p. 54
We Won't Get Fooled Again: Rock Music and Musical Analysis	p. 75
Liverpool and the Beatles: Exploring Relations between Music and Place, Text and Context	p. 90
The Invention of American Musical Culture: Meaning, Criticism, and Musical Acculturation in Antebellum America	p. 107
Adequate Modes of Listening	p. 129
"Out of Notes": Signification, Interpretation, and the Problem of Miles Davis	p. 147
Writing Ghost Notes: The Poetics and Politics of Transcription	p. 169
Sisterhood: A Loving Lesbian Ear Listens to Progressive Heterosexual Women's Rock Music	p. 204
Janacek's Jenufa and the Tyranny of the Domestic	p. 229
At the Twilight's Last Scoring	p. 258
Listening Subjects: Semiotics, Psychoanalysis, and the Music of John Adams and Steve Reich	p. 275
Contributors	p. 299
Index	p. 301
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