| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.4

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Book Review

Methods/Theory

Jeffrey H. Jackson and Stanley C. Pelkey, editors. Music and History: Bridging the Disciplines. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. 2005. Pp. xvii, 268. $50.00.

For decades, musicology and history have seemed to revolve in different orbits. Musicologists inherited the Romantic notion of a transcendent art work and discussed pieces as things unto themselves. Where historical connection was sought, it was of stylistic influence strictly within the musical sphere. The second half of the twentieth century saw that model recede if not collapse, to be replaced by a new emphasis on cultural context. The context remained inward looking, however: how can a culture illuminate a musical work, rather than how can a musical work illuminate a culture? For most historians in the Anglo-American tradition, music has been predominantly a sideshow, a fascinating bit of the past but mostly decorative, of little fundamental importance to understanding the past. Music's place in the historical dialogue has been further complicated by the sheer technical difficulties of musical analysis. Few historians have the training or the inclination to engage in nuanced discussion of musical details, and for those that do, who would be able to read it?

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