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2 unusual facts about New musicology


New musicology

In 1980 Joseph Kerman published the article "How We Got into analysis, and How to Get Out," calling for a change in musicology.

In the words of Rose Rosengard Subotnik: "For me...the notion of an intimate relationship between music and society functions not as a distant goal but as a starting point of great immediacy...the goal of which is to articulate something essential about why any particular music is the way it is in particular, that is, to achieve insight into the character of its identity."



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