Drawing on the work of experts from around the globe, this work offers a defining statement on the scope of musicology at the end of the 20th century and its relationship to other fields of academic endeavour, including philosophy and aesthetics.
Drawing on the work of leading experts from around the globe, Musicology and Sister Disciplines provides the definitive, authoritative statement on the scope of musicology today and its relationship to other fields of academic endeavour, including philosophy and aesthetics, literary studies, art history, mathematics, computer science, historiography, and sociology. These groundbreaking papers represent the outcome of a major musicological conference in 1997, and include contributions from the philosopher Bernard Williams and world-famous mathematician Roger Penrose.
... all the book's diversity of contents complements its general sense of challenge to ingrained thinking and openness to a scholarly world in which inclusivity appears to matter.
