Music and Ideology

This collection of essays, which reflects the views of music scholars who bring postmodern critical theory to bear on the theory and analysis of music, is long overdue. The essayists in this volume are not fixated on aesthetics; rather, they focus on the social and discursive concerns that had previously been considered marginal to their subject. 'Music/Ideology' is a response to the question: Must the practice of music analysis and music theory always reinscribe the ideology of aesthetic autonomy? And, if not, under what circumstances does it reinscribe that ideology? The responses to these questions should appeal not only to music and cultural theorists, but also to larger audience engaged in critical theory. These essays serve as an introduction to the broad array of issues arising from approaches that represent the full spectrum, from music-theoretical to Marxist and feminist issues. Such questions are of vital importance and not only to those who ae engaged in establishing a connection among music theory, music analysis an aesthetic ideology. 'Music/Ideology' presents today's most interesting critical thinkers in postmodern theory and music theory, introducing an inter-disciplinary approach and covering a wide range of subjects-both by implication and explication.

Introduction to the Series, Foreword: Corresponding Scores, Introduction: Postmodern Musical Poetics and the Problem of "Close Reading", "A Few Words to Sing", Feminist Theory, Music Theory, and the Mind/Body Problem, Superior Myths, Dogmatic Allegories: The Resistance to Musical Unity, Rewriting Schenker: Narrative- History-Ideology, Analytical Fictions, Lieder, Listeners, and Ideology: Schubert's "Alinde" and Opus 81, The Silence of the Frames, Voices Within the Voice: Geno-text and Pheno-text in Berio's Sequenza III, Desire, Repression and Brahms's First Symphony, Commentary: Poststructuralism and Issues of Music Theory, Permissions