| Unit name | Readings In Musicology |
|---|---|
| Unit code | MUSIM0036 |
| Credit points | 40 |
| Level of study | M/7 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
| Unit director | Professor. Fairclough |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites | |
| Co-requisites | |
| School/department | Department of Music |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
Readings in Musicology identifies areas of musicological research which demonstrate the chances and challenges of disciplinary self-awareness: key categories of thinking about music, such as autonomy, context, and modernity; the thorny relationship between history and aesthetics; the appropriation of ideas from other disciplines (philosophy, critical theory, literary theory); the discussion of musics or aspects of music ignored or suppressed by traditional musicology (gender, non-Western music, popular and functional music). Such investigations help to understand how and why musicology developed the way it did, the reasons behind and the nature of current debates, and $� crucially for postgraduate students $� perspectives on the future of the discipline.
