Weekly Readings
Online articles are indicated below.
Eduard Hanslick’s On the Musically Beautiful has been placed on reserve.
A reader with the other readings is available from Course Reader Material, 1137 Westwood Blvd.
Course Readings Schedule
Sept 27 Aesthetic and Philosophical Research
Oct 5 Systematic Musicology
Erica Mugglestone, “Guido Adler’s ‘The Scope, Method, and Aim of Musicology’ (1885): An English Translation with an Historico-Analytical Commentary.” Yearbook for Traditional Music 3 (1981). http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0740-1558%281981%2913%3C1%3AGA%22SMA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-2
Roger Kendall and Roger W. H. Savage, “Systematic Musicology Past and Present,” Perspectives in Systematic Musicology. Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology 12 (2005).
Roger W. H. Savage, “Aesthetic and Philosophical Perspectives,” Perspectives in Systematic Musicology. Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology 12 (2005).
Andrew D. McCredie, “Systematic Musicology—Some Twentieth-Century Patterns and Perspectives,” Studies in Music (1971).
Oct 11 Aesthetics of Music
Carl Dahlhaus, “Historical Starting-Points,” “Emancipation of Instrumental Music” and “The Quarrel Over Formalism,” in Esthetics of Music, trans. William Austin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982).
Eduard Hanslick, Chapters 1, 2, 3 and 7 in On the Musically Beautiful, trans. Geoffrey Payzant (Indianapolis: Hacket Publishing, 1986).
Oct 18 Critical Musicology
Theodor W. Adorno, “Types of Musical Conduct” and “Function” in Introduction to the Sociology of Music, trans. E. B. Ashton (New York: Continuum, 1989).
Susan McClary, “Paradigm Dissonances: Music Theory, Cultural Studies, Feminist Criticism,” Perspectives of New Music 32: 1 (Winter 1994). http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0031-6016%28199424%2932%3A1%3C68%3APDMTCS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-2
Lawrence Kramer, “The Musicology of the Future,” Repercussions 1:1 (Spring 1992).
Roger W. H. Savage, “Hermeneutics, Adorno and the New Musicology,” Perspectives in Systematic Musicology. Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology 12 (2005).
Oct 26 SEM Annual Meeting
Nov 1 The Crisis of Representation
George E. Marcus and Michael M. J. Fischer, Introductions and “A Crisis of Representation in the Human Sciences,” Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1986).
Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson, “Beyond ‘Culture’: Space, Identity and the Politics of Difference,” Cultural Anthropology 7: 1 (February 1992). http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0886-7356%28199202%297%3A1%3C6%3AB%22SIAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-6
Arjun Appadurai, “Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination,” Public Culture12: 1 (2000). http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/public_culture/v012/12.1appadurai.pdf
Nov 8 Ricoeur Studies Conference
Nov 15 The Subjectivization of Aesthetics
Hans-Georg Gadamer, “The Subjectivization of Aesthetics through the Kantian Critique,” Truth and Method. 2nd revised ed., trans. revised by Joel Weinsheimer and Donald G. Marshall (New York: Crossroads, 1991).
Roger W. H. Savage, “Criticism, Imagination and the Subjectivization of Aesthetics” Philosophy and Literature 29:1 (2005). http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/philosophy_and_literature/v029/29.1savage.pdf
Nov 22 Thanksgiving
Nov 29 Aesthetic Experience and The Ontology of the Work of Art [CMS Conference]
Hans-Georg Gadamer, “Play as the Clue to Ontological Explanation,” Truth and Method. 2nd revised ed., trans. revised by Joel Weinsheimer and Donald G. Marshall (New York: Crossroads, 1991).
Paul Ricoeur, “Aesthetic Experience,” Critique and Conviction, trans. Kathleen Blamey (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998).
Dec 6 Aesthetics, History and the Circle of Mimesis
Carl Dahlhaus, “The Significance of Art: Historical or Aesthetic?” In Foundations of Music History, trans. J. B. Robinson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983).
Paul Ricoeur, “Mimesis and Representation,” A Ricoeur Reader, ed. Mario J. Valdés (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991).
Paul Ricoeur, “The Function of Fiction in Shaping Reality,” A Ricoeur Reader.
Dec 11 Papers due.