Synchronization in ensemble performance: the sniff as a temporal cue
Esther Coorevits, Dirk Moelants · Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) · 2015
Musicology as ActivismThe delicate mechanisms of power cannot function unless knowledge, or rather knowledge apparatuses, are formed, organized and put into circulation FOUCAULT, 1976: 33-34 Like any other social discourse, music is meaningful precisely because insofar as at least some people believe that it is and act in accordance with that belief.Meaning is not inherent in music, but neither is it in language: both are activities that are kept afloat only because communities of people invest in them, agree collectively that their signs serve as valid currency.