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Career Discourse

Page history last edited by PBworks 16 years, 6 months ago

 

 

Gut Musicology

 

Because my exact disipline doesn't exist yet, the main invention in the field wil have to be the creation of it. With my schooling, I am attempting to string classes together that will build this new "career," or way of thinking. By taking classes in, and mixing the ideas of, literature, ethnomusicology, philosophy, and rhetoric I am effectivly inventing my own school of thought and art. (Why theses disciplines?) My career, or the umbrella that these disciplines fall under, is called Gut Musicology.

 

The main point of this new school is to examine the gut feelings that music gives us and attempt to convert them into literature and New Media. Many personal experiences have led me to the revelation that music connects us in ways no other medium can. This study attempts to understand how this works - how music can affect people from disparate parts of the world in similar ways, or how music has the same quality of Plato's Forms, spanning these cross-culural barriers with no "knowledge" necessary - and how to capture it in writing.

 

Describing the way music can communicate a myriad of things that writing or literature can not, is inherently counter-intuitive. Music can put across ideas that we normally can't, so how can we embody these ideas in writing and technology? This idea of bringing out hidden elements is the invention that areas of thought have in common. Utilizing the study of philosophical mysticism, experiemental writing techniques, and many other disciplines, Gut Musicology will attack these sorts of questions head-on. As Susan McClary puts it, we should view music "as a medium that participates in social formation by influencing the ways we perceive our feelings, our bodies, our desires, our very subjectivities - even if it does so surreptitiously, without most of us knowning how. It is too important a cultural force to be shrouded by mystified notions of Romantic transcendence." So, Gut Musicology must strive to think about the mysterious and write about the indescribable, to bring our knowledge of the power of music to the forefront.

 

 

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