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International review of the aesthetics and sociology of music, Vol. 38 No. 2, 2007.

Original scientific paper

Re-enchanting Musicology: A French Problem?

Eve-Norah Pauset ; Dunkerque, France

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Abstract

"Why write musicology?" For some years now, this perplexing question has been exuding from the medium of musicology: from between "a positivist step intended to bore into the secrecies of technique and musical knowledge", and the desire to redesign musicology, having as its task "to update the way in which, through it, man metaphorically builds up his relation to the world", in short between "aesthetisation" and "sociologisation". With that in mind, interdisciplinarity is concerned with demands ensuring against the confusion tolerated in the name of "thought" and of "creativity", and musicology must become the "reflective conscience of music", especially in thinking and acting in respect of the deficiency of the aesthetic experience of a disillusioned society. However, can this disenchantment - one also encounters the term in the company sector and in policy - be linked to musicology? If yes, how, and in which cases, is this infirmity eminently French?

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87698

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https://hrcak.srce.hr/87698

Publication date:

31.8.2007.

Article data in other languages: croatian french

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