Music, Culture and Society: John Rundell
8 March 2008
Music as Critico-Reflective Space
John Rundell
Following Adorno’s remarks on Bach and contrapuntal music, this paper explores the possibility of theorising music as a spatial form, and one not only constituted through time and rhythm. It is not only the space of performance, of reception, of listening and interpretation that is of concern here, but also the internal space of the creation, arrangement and voicing of that space. This spatiality creates what might be termed a specific musico-reflective space where thinking, feeling and particular moods are created, performed and interacted with.
John Rundell is Reader in Social Theory and Director of The Ashworth Program in Social Theory, School of Social and Environmental Enquiry, University of Melbourne.