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Book SynopsisDisciplining Music confronts a topic that has sparked considerable debate in recent years: how do musicians and music scholars discipline music in their efforts to confer order and meaning on it? This collection of essays addresses this issue by formulating questions about music's canons.
Table of ContentsPreface 1: Prologue, Disciplining Music Katherine Bergeron 2: The Canons in the Musicology Toolbox Dan Michael Randel 3: Sophie Drinker's History Ruth A. Solie 4: Rethinking Musical Culture: Canonic Reformulations in a Post Tonal Age Robert P. Morgan 5: Cultural Dialogics and Jazz: A White Historian Signifies Gary Tomlinson 6: History and Works That Have No History: Reviving Rossini's Neapolitan Operas Philip Gossett 7: Ethnomusicology's Challenge to the Canon: the Canon's Challenge to Ethnomusicology Philip V. Bohlman 8: Mozart and the Ethnomusicological Study of Western Culture: An Essay in Four Movements Brune Nettl 9: Hierarchical Unity, Plural Unities: Toward a Reconciliation Richard Cohn, Douglas Dempster. 10: A Lifetime of Chants Katherine Bergeron 11: Epilogue: Musics and Canons Philip V. Bohlman Contributors Index
