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Music, sensation, and sensuality.(Book Review)
Edited by Linda Phyllis Austern. (Critical and Cultural Musicology, 5.) New York: Routledge, 2002. [xii, 348 p. ISBN 0-815-33421-4. $95.] Music examples, illustrations, index.
As Martha Feldman, the editor for Routledge's series Critical and Cultural Musicology, remarks in her Series Editor's Forward, "Musicology has undergone a seachange in recent years." Not only has the discipline been reinvigorated by a broadening of subject areas for serious consideration to include genres outside traditional concerns, but now it is also [egitimate to research rock and other "low" culture musics, to investigate the possible ramifications of matters of race or sexuality on composition and reception, or even to foreground one's own subjectivity in the enterprise of musicological undertaking. Also, the very guts (an appropriate term in the present context) in the way musicology allows itself to be structured has been rendered all but unrecognizable in traditional terms. It has reconstituted itself with methodological approaches from other disciplines ranging from deconstruction to postcolonial analysis, for example, extending beyond the solely positivistic approach of previous musicological endeavor. Perhaps one in the most profound shifts in epistemological methods for musicology has been the new focus for on the somatic. In her thought-provoking introduction, editor Linda Phyllis Austern draws on recent findings from the cognitive sciences, which derails the past twenty-five hundred years of Western attitudes toward the connection between the mind and the body. In contemporary been consistently represented as inferior been consistently represented as inferior to, and needing to be transcended by, the mind. Moreover, the body has been consistently aligned with the feminine, the mind with the masculine. Musicology has traditionally positioned itself along lines that would seem strongly to concur with this attitude, admitting only formalist and/ or positivistic approaches (not to mention marginalizing at best, of eradicating at worst, histories of women composers). So deeply entrenched has this attitude been that it has only come to light and its tenets questioned in the last decade of so, through radical feminist and gender studies scholarship.
Yet investigating the ramifications of the interdependence between mind and body is no simple undertaking in the discipline of musicology, as Austern also remarks: "Music, with its physical origin and paradoxical intangibility, with its beginning in the mind and body, must necessarily occupy a complicated place in any scheme linking corporeality and contemplation" (p. 5). The essays in this collection do not attempt to gloss over any of the complexities that arise in their respective endeavors. This collection is a fine example of the best work that can be done under the banner of this new musicology. The essays show that it is possible to acknowledge the existence of the body and the senses while yet retaining the sort of acute intellectual and scholarly rigor that is traditionally expected in the discipline.
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