Cultural Musicology - Its Possibilities, Limits and Challenges

Play this video in HD (1080p) | 'Cultural Musicology - Its Possibilities, Limits and Challenges' - a documentary produced and directed by Pieter de Rooij - explores the dimensions of a cultural musicology, through covering debates of musicologists on a wide range of topics at a symposium (Göttingen, September 2012), a workshop (Amsterdam, November 2012) and a panel session (Leiden, March 2013) and through interviews with five renowned musicologists (Birgit Abels, Tomie Hahn, Lawrence Kramer, Wim van der Meer, John Richardson). The film has the following outline/chapters: Introduction | Musicology and its subdivisions | What's in a name? (or, what's wrong with 'ethnomusicology'?) | Music as cultural practice | Sensational knowledge | Music(ology) in post colonial discourse and cultural theory | The transformation of the idea of culture in (new) musicology | Framing | World Order | Planetary | Power, Institutions, Orthodoxies | Musicologica | Sharing knowledge... how and with whom? | Music and its representations | Shruti | Embracing restlessness | Final notes | End credits (+ some funny stuff) || Filmed in 2012 and 2013 in Göttingen, Amsterdam and Leiden. Duration: 80'27"