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More that he finds musicology's dominant ideological framework and its consequences incompatible with what he considers the primary virtues of scholarship. He e

by Veen 5y ago

More that he finds musicology's dominant ideological framework and its consequences incompatible with what he considers the primary virtues of scholarship. He explains further in a blog article [0]: > But in recent years the dogmatic mode of thinking, in which uncritical commitments are enforced by mechanisms involving public humiliation, no-platforming, and attempts to have scholars fired, has become to seem like it has become endemic. Now, too many humanities scholars move in lock step with the general ideology of our time, dogmatically echoing the opinions of politicians, the media, and business [0]: https://jpehs.co.uk/why-i-left-academia/ https://jpehs.co.uk/why-i-left-academia/

oytis 5y ago
> An outcome of the second, critical statement could be that music departments continue to teach music by Beethoven, Wagner, and co., and use that music – whose quiddity as music is analysed in order to allow it to feed into the general framework – to offer intellectually critical insights into the social, political, economic, legal, and other structures of the world in which it was written, and later canonized, and now consumed by the musical public My impression is that is exactly what postcolonial approach to musicology does. Maybe it's getting worse as humanities are being underfunded in general.
pvg 5y ago
'explains' is overstating it a little given that he offers no actual evidence of a 'dominant ideological framework' - he literally makes up the statement he chooses to oppose.
- Veen 5y ago
  It's a blog article explaining his decision to leave his job. It's not a news report or academic paper. He outlines his experience as he sees it. You can take him at his word or reject it, it's up to you. Perhaps you know more about the state of musicological scholarship and the debates within that community than he does.
  - pvg 5y ago
    I'm not holding it to news or academic standards, just the reasonable expectation that one supports one's arguments. The argument here is a weirdly synthetic one, a 'strawman' one might say, in the uncharitable messageboard parlance.

by Veen 5y ago

oytis 5y ago

> An outcome of the second, critical statement could be that music departments continue to teach music by Beethoven, Wagner, and co., and use that music – whose quiddity as music is analysed in order to allow it to feed into the general framework – to offer intellectually critical insights into the social, political, economic, legal, and other structures of the world in which it was written, and later canonized, and now consumed by the musical public My impression is that is exactly what postcolonial approach to musicology does. Maybe it's getting worse as humanities are being underfunded in general.

pvg 5y ago

'explains' is overstating it a little given that he offers no actual evidence of a 'dominant ideological framework' - he literally makes up the statement he chooses to oppose.

Veen 5y ago
It's a blog article explaining his decision to leave his job. It's not a news report or academic paper. He outlines his experience as he sees it. You can take him at his word or reject it, it's up to you. Perhaps you know more about the state of musicological scholarship and the debates within that community than he does.
- pvg 5y ago
  I'm not holding it to news or academic standards, just the reasonable expectation that one supports one's arguments. The argument here is a weirdly synthetic one, a 'strawman' one might say, in the uncharitable messageboard parlance.