Roger Savage's interdisciplinary research interests focus on the connections between hermeneutics, critical theory, and music criticism. His recent book, Hermeneutics and Music Criticism (Routledge), provides an extended critique of the use of hermeneutics as a way of deconstructing traditional disciplinary constructs. His book Structure and Sorcery: The Aesthetics of Post-War Serial Composition and Indeterminacy (Garland) examines the practices of high modernist composers. Savage has published articles in Telos, Philosophy and Literature, the Journal of French Philosophy, The European Legacy, the British Journal of Aesthetics, ex tempore, and Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology. Forthcoming articles will appear in world of music and Symposium. Savage is co-editor of Perspectives in Systematic Musicology: Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology volume 12 (2005) and is an associate editor for ex tempore. He is also a contributing author to Ricoeur across the Disciplines (forthcoming from Continuum).

Roger Savage is a founding member and currently Secretary/Treasurer of the Society for Ricoeur Studies. He is also President of the newly reformed Society for Ethnomusicology Southern California & Hawai’i Chapter.

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