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De Musica Disserenda, XII/1, 2016: Nineteenth-Century Music in Central Europe: Paradigms and Popular Canon
2016
Nations and nationalism have been a main research topic for decades, but the last few years have witnessed noticeable growth in these studies. The perspective generally accepted in the humanities – that demands for political independence of the nations in nineteenth-century Central Europe were premised on a sense of cultural identity – has also been taken up by contemporary musicological thought. Essays by philosopher and social anthropologist Ernest Gellner on “invented nations” in Nations and Nationalism (1983), or by historian and political scientist Benedict Anderson on “imagined communities” in Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (1991), supported …
Semiotics
2019
The field of musical semiotics has developed since the 1970s, and it consists of a wide range of approaches and analyses into different genres of music and dance (e.g., art, popular, ethnic, folk), even extending into that sphere of animal life called zoomusicology. In general, the term semiotics refers to the study of meaning making and of sign process. The background of semiotics can be traced back to the first half of 20th century, with reference to the development of theoretical linguistics and the consequent application of linguistic models to other fields of expression and communication. The term semiotic was introduced by the American logician and philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce a…