MUSIC AND SOCIAL ANTAGONISMS
MUSIC AND SOCIAL ANTAGONISMS
This chapter examines how social antagonisms produce cultural double binds, moments when individuals are caught between different communities and languages that both refuse — and yet somehow demand — integration. In ethnomusicology, for example, such cases may arise when the history of colonialism contaminates the very methodology through which one studies oppressed cultures, leaving one without a language in which to engage the other while feeling a disciplinary imperative that one must engage the other. The essay “Music Theory, Phenomenology, and Modes of Perception” by music theorist David Lewin is analyzed.
Keywords: social antagonisms, integration, ethnomusicology, David Lewin
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