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Do We Still Need to Think Musically? (Musings About an Old Friend, Fishing Nets, Templates, and Much More)

Marcello Sorce-Keller

Published in: Ethnomusicology Ireland 5 (2017)

Pages: 1-15 | Published Online: July 2017

https://doi.org/10.64208/LGKT1257

Abstract

In what is deliberately not a typical scholarly paper, I muse on why we may need to move beyond thinking about ‘music’ in its various, established disciplinary manifestations within traditional scholarly discourse, towards new and braver conceptualisations. While ‘music’ remains an entrenched term in everyday life, the academic discourse needs better tools that take into account the sonic action and impact of music/sounds across a variety of trajectories and domains currently not served fully and comprehensively by our scholarly frames.

Keywords: Music(ologies), ontologies, definitions and categorisations, sonic action.

Author: Marcello Sorce-Keller