Music and Remnants of History. Ideological Artifacts and Positivism in the History of Music
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Music historiography, positivism, musical fetishism, musical workAbstract
Although in the last decades there has been a renewal of musicology, the maintopics of positivism are still in the center of textbooks and curriculum of musichistory. This historiography has become hegemonic, showing great resistancecompared to other historical disciplines. One of the usual explanations is thatof a disciplinary delay: positivism has come late to an isolated musicology,concerned only in its problems. In this paper I will try an alternative explanation,appealing to the fact that this paradigm dwells in its own artifacts: in particularthe work and style concepts. In this way I will propose the existence of aspecifically musicological positivism, and also consider the possibility that itshegemony rests on ideological rather than methodological reasons.Downloads
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