Music and Historical Critique: Selected Essays

Contents

• Contents: Introduction
• List of published writings
• The web of culture: a context for musicology
• Music and the claims of text: Monteverdi, Rinuccini and Marino
• Opera and drame
• Hugo, Donizetti and Verdi
• Italian romanticism and Italian opera: an essay in their affinities
• Pastoral and musical magic in the birth of opera
• Musical pasts and postmodern musicologies: A Response to Lawrence Kramer and Tomlinson Responds
• Giaches de Wert and the discourse of Petrarchism
• Cultural dialogics and jazz: a white historian signifies
• Unlearning the Aztec cantares (preliminaries to a postcolonial history)
• Finding ground to stand on
• Self, other, and the emergence of musical modernity
• Vico's songs: detours at the origins of (ethno)musicology
• Ghosts in the machine
• Hamlet and Poppea
• Learning to curse at 67
• Musicology, anthropology, history
• 5 pictures of pathos
• Il faut mediterraniser la musique: after Braudel
• Index.