Cursed Questions

Richard Taruskin is Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of a dozen books, including the five-volume Oxford History of Western Music. He was awarded the Kyoto Prize in 2017.

Introduction
1. The History of What?
2. Did Somebody Say Censorship?
3. Haydn and the Enlightenment?
4. Is There a Baby in the Bathwater? On aesthetic autonomy
5. Shall We Change the Subject? A Music Historian Reflects
6. “Alte Musik” or “Early Music”? On pseudohistory
7. Nicht blutbefleckt?
8. What Else? On musical representation
9. Unanalyzable, Is It?
10. Essence or Context? On musical ontology
11. But Aren’t They All Invented? On tradition
12. Which Way Is Up? On the sociology of taste
13. A Walking Translation? On musicology east and west

Index