"Diversi diversa orant". Bemerkungen zur Lage der deutschen Musikwissenschaft
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Titel: | "Diversi diversa orant". Bemerkungen zur Lage der deutschen Musikwissenschaft |
Medientyp: | Buch, Text |
veröffentlicht: |
Franz Steiner Verlag
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Umfang: | 9-17 |
Zusammenfassung: | <p>German musicology-that is, historical musicology-is in a crisis which, only partly due to the disastrous policies of state governments, is in large part homemade. Vast areas of research are no longer cultivated, or they are taken care of by only a few specialists working more or less in isolation, as especially seen in renaissance and, to a lesser degree, medieval studies. With respect to the future of musicology within the universities, the development is even worse. These areas are so sparsely represented in university curricula that a vicious circle has already been established. In teaching and research, nineteenth and twentieth century studies prevail, but even in these fields there is a dangerous concentration on music aesthetics on the one hand, and a plethora of highly sophisticated and solipsistic interpretations of a handfull of established masterworks on the other (frequently in the wake of Adorno). There is also a strong tendency to satisfy market demands by producing more and more popular music history books at the expense of original research. Finally, the tendency to neglect the results of research beyond a country's own borders, especially in the USA, is becoming commonplace (one receives little comfort in the fact that this seems to be a reciprocal process). The decline of the discipline can only be stopped by a thorough process of redefining its principal tasks and its role in the university and society.</p> |
ISSN: |
0003-9292
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Datensammlung: | sid-55-col-jstormusic sid-55-col-jstoras3 JSTOR Music Archive JSTOR Arts & Sciences III Archive |