Le 1er juillet 2017
de 15h00 à 15h30
Le Patio (université de Strasbourg)
22 rue René Descartes, 67000 Strasbourg
amphithéâtre 5
Séance - Epistemology and Musical Hermeneutics
Pré-acte / Acte
Auteur : Mario Baroni
The first part of the paper discusses the idea of the presence nowadays of a business model for culture and sustains that such a model must not be interpreted as a change in the cultural history of humanity, but a mere transitional phenomenon. In any case, while music traditionally also includes commercial aspects, musicology is set in the universe of human sciences which has scarce contacts with the commercial world. In the following part the paper passes to the more significant topic of globalisation. In the second millennium the situation of music has substantially changed: Afro-American traditions have been strengthened and expanded by the music industry, and musicology, in order to study them, must necessarily change some of its objects and methods. In the field of music analysis there is an important difference between studying written music and studying oral or recorded traditions (as in ethnomusicology and in popular music studies). While the analysis of written music has been mainly interested in the syntactic organisation of musical structures, other traditions require attention to communication aspects. For this reason analysis also needs a new kind of knowledge based on extra musical disciplines such as psychology, linguistics, sociology and anthropology: in fact it risks losing its disciplinary identity and being transformed into an interdisciplinary field. Its future could be linked to this unprecedented situation.
