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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....
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