Roll Over the Musical Boundaries: A Few Milestones for the Implementation of an Equal Method in Musicology

Abstract

Does musicology already have a “method of equality,” even in advance of considerations of what Rancière has to offer? Danick Trottier engages the relationship between ‘new musicology’ and popular music studies to reveal some ways in which musicology, as a discipline, has opened itself to thinking about equality by challenging established hierarchies and the ways in which they have been drawn, not only of repertoires and canon inclusions, but also of what kinds of musicking practices make valid objects of musicological study.