In a Web of Sounds Our Signifiers Grope: Feminist and Postmodern Hermeneutics in American ‘New Musicology’ Cover Image

Értelem szövedéke, hangok. Feminista és posztmodern olvasatok az amerikai „új zenetudomány”-ban
In a Web of Sounds Our Signifiers Grope: Feminist and Postmodern Hermeneutics in American ‘New Musicology’

Author(s): Dániel Kodaj
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Replika Alapítvány
Keywords: music; musicology; feminism; hermeneutics; postmodern; sound

Summary/Abstract: In the past twenty years New Musicology, a novel branch of American academic art theory, has pushed the traditional branches of music analysis into direct contact with the burgeoning fields of cultural theory, gender studies, and critical sociology. The authors classified under this label—forming a loose group rather than a secluded school—fuse branches of feminism, discourse theory, narratology, deconstruction, the archaeology of knowledge and popular culture studies with the traditional methods and concerns of musical analysis. This paper sketches the history of New Musicology and breaks it down analytically into four research programs in an attempt to give a comprehensive guide to an ever more important, continuously growing body of work which is casting traditional musicology into a fresh mold.

  • Issue Year: 2005
  • Issue No: 49-50
  • Page Range: 121-140
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Hungarian