Roger Savage

Associate Professor, Systematic Musicology

Twentieth century musical aesthetics; the philosophy of music; hermeneutics; critical theory

D.Phil., University of Sussex, England;
M.M., McGill University; B.M., University of Saskatchewan

Roger Savage is the author of Structure and Sorcery: The Aesthetics of Post-War Serial Composition and Indeterminacy, which was published by Garland Publishing in 1989. He is working on a book entitled Hermeneutics and Music Criticism. He has published articles in major journals, including Telos, Philosophy and Literature, The European Legacy and The British Journal of Aesthetics. 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 currently Vice-president/President-elect of the Society for Ethnomusicology Southern California Chapter.

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