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Article Excerpt
The Early Works of Niels W. Gade: In Search of the Poetic. By Anna Harwell Celenza. Aldershot, Hant, England: Ashgate Publishing, 2001. [xvi, 251 p. ISBN 0-754-60401-2. $74.95.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, index.
Along with the "new" and the "critical" musicologies of the last two decades, another movement has arisen which might best be described as "advocative" musicology. Like their colleagues in the aforementioned camps, advocative musicologists are dedicated revisionists whose approaches appear to have been inspired by those of third world, minority, or feminist writers. And like them, these crusaders oppose the musicological status quo, targeting firmly entrenched ideas whose origins are obscure and whose natures are repressive, notions which have been sustained so long by unquestioning scholarship and popular opinion that they seem to have become generally accepted as fact.
Advocative musicologists, however, differ from their confreres in that their motivation tends to be more personal than political or cultural. They battle on...
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