Critical musicological reflections: essays in honour of Derek B. Scott

This collection of original essays is in tribute to the work of Derek Scott on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday.

As one of the leading lights in Critical Musicology, Scott has helped shape the epistemological direction for music research since the late 1980s.

There is no doubt that the path taken by the critical musicologist has been a tricky one, leading to new conceptions, interactions, and heated debates during the past two decades.

Changes in musicology during the closing decades of the twentieth century prompted the establishment of new sets of theoretical methods that probed at the social and cultural relevance of music, as much as its self-referentiality.

All the scholars contributing to this book have played a role in the general paradigmatic shift that ensued in the wake of Kerman's call for change in the 1980s.