Musical Biography: Towards New Paradigms

The epistemological upheavals in the humanities since the 1960s have generated a body of theoretical thought that has undermined many of the assumptions of traditional biography. For example, the accumulation of facts is no longer believed to bring us closer to an understanding of the subject; nor are the traditional views of the unified self and the self as a foundational idea taken for granted. This volume brings together musicologists and historians who explore, through individual case studies, the rich potential of these new theories for writing musical lives.

• | Author: Jolanta T. Pekacz
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Apr 19, 2006
• | Number of Pages: 248 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 0754651517
• | ISBN-13: 9780754651512