Synopses & Reviews
In January 1912, Britain's Captain Robert F. Scott reached the South Pole, only to find he had been beaten by Roald Amundsen's Norwegian expedition. Scott and his companions faced an 850-mile march to safety. All perished on the return. A few months later, a search party found Scott's body and
the journals that told his tragic story.
Scott's own account was published to extraordinary acclaim in 1913. This new edition draws on ninety years of reflection on the Antarctic disaster to illuminate Scott's journals, publishing for the first time a complete list of the changes made to Scott's original text. Drawing on previously unused
papers from the John Murray archive, Max Jones tells the story of this remarkable book and charts the changing fortunes of Scott's reputation. The first fully annotated edition, it also includes appendixes on J. M. Barrie's Biographical Introduction' and The Finding of the Dead, plus a glossary of
names and a full index.
The story of Captain Scott and his team is sure to captivate modern readers just as much as it did almost one-hundred years ago.
Synopsis
Rethinking Music offers a comprehensive re-evaluation of current thinking about music. In this book, 24 distinguished musicologists, music theorists, and ethnomusicologists review different dimensions of musical study, revealing a range of concerns that are shared across the discipline: the nature of musicological practice, its social and ethical dimensions, issues of canon and value, and the relationship between academic study and musical experience.
Table of Contents
Part I. 1. Ontologies of Music, Philip V. Bohlman
2. Analysis in Context, Jim Samson
3. Beyond Privileged Contexts: Intertextuality, Influence, and Dialogue, Kevin Korsyn
4. Autonomy/Heteronomy: The Contexts of Musicology, Arnold Whittall
5. Going Flat: Post-Hierarchical Music Theory and the Musical Surface, Robert Fink
6. The Challenge of Semiotics, Kofi Agawa
7. An Experimental Music Theory?, Robert Gjerdingen
8. Concepts of Musical Unity, Fred Everett Maus
9. How Music Matters: Poetic Content Revisited, Scott Burnham
10. Translating Musical Meaning: The Nineteenth-Century Performer as Narrator, John Rink
11. Analysing Performance and Performing Analysis, Nicholas Cook
12. Composer, Theorist, Composer/Theorist, Joseph Dubiel
Part II.
13. The Institutionalization of Musicology: Perspectives of a North American Ethnomusicologist, Bruno Nettl
14. Other Musicologies: Exploring Issues and Confronting Practice in India, Regula Burckhardt Qureshi
15. The History of Musical Canon, William Weber
16. The Historiography of Music: Issues of Past and Present, Leo Treitler
17. Reception Theories, Canonic Discourses, and Musical Value, Mark Everist
18. The Musical Text, Stanley Boorman
19. Finding the Music in Musicology: Performance History and Musical Works, José A. Bowen
20. Popular Music, Unpopular Musicology, John Covach
21. Gender, Musicology, and Feminism, Suzanne G. Cusick
22. Musicology and/as Social Concern: Imagining the Relevant Musicologist, Ralph P. Locke
23. The Impact and Ethics of Musical Scholarship, Kay Kaufman Shelemay
24. What Do We Want to Teach When We Teach Music? One Apology, Two Short Trips, Three Ethical Dilemmas, and Eighty-Two Questions, Ellen Koskoff