Ethnomusicology, History and Critical Theory Forum 2.1:
The New Cultural Histories of Music
TODAY, 5 PM, St David’s Room, King’s College London
PLEASE NOTE: This event will be held in the ST DAVID'S ROOM, on the second floor of the main King's Building, opposite the chapel.
Speakers: Julia Byl, Matthew Head, Katherine Butler Schofield, Bettina Varwig
Chair: Fabio Morabito
The last few years have seen the beginnings of an interdiscipline in music studies that has been labelled the “New Cultural History of Music”. Lying at the intersection of musicology and history “proper” and, in theory, open to the non-West and to the mass, popular and marginal, it has already been monumentalised in the new Oxford Handbook to the New Cultural History of Music and an important new OUP monograph series of the same name. But what is the shape of the new cultural history of music; and what – if anything – is new about it? Moreover, what productive relations might it have – or not have – with ethnomusicology, currently experiencing its own, woefully undertheorised, archival turn? And what of method: what might the long experience of historical musicologists in the archives teach historically minded ethnomusicologists? And what might ethnomusicology’s sensitivity to the nuances of difference, or its long orientation to music as medium rather than object, have to offer the New Cultural History of Music – beyond an insistence that we are dealing with Histories, plural? In this roundtable forum, four historians of the European, Indian and Sumatran musical fields will debate the possibilities and frustrations of the New Cultural Histories framework in the context of their own, innovative current practices of cultural history.
All welcome; please circulate.
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Acts of injustice done,
Between the rising and the setting sun,
In history lie like bones, each one.
~ W H Auden
Dr Katherine Butler SCHOFIELD
Department of Music and King's India Institute Affiliate
King's College London
Strand
London
WC2R 2LS
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