Learning Outcomes:
This module will enable students to
1. Define and evaluate key developments in recent scholarship in historical musicology;
2. Relate musicological developments to more general trends in cultural theory;
3. Train their critical faculties through positioning themselves in relation to mutually exclusive or critical musicological points of view.
Indicative Module Content:
The impact of historical and historiographical practices, the challenges of postmodern approaches, the influence of ethnomusicology and anthropology, the performative turn, the moral turn. perceptions of gender and culture, problems related to the canon, temporality and reception aesthetics, performance practice and "contemporary" music, and musicology in the digital age.