Working Papers
This page contains links to unpublished research papers of mine, in various combinations of Word, PDF, and HTML formats. Some of the papers here are unpublished works-in-progress, and others are earlier versions of works later published, and now under copyright with those publishers. Follow the links to get to the published version.
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Questioning Assumptions: Notes Toward a Musical Sociology—Working Paper 2-03-05
Overview: In this paper, I try to make the case for dialogic sociology and for sociological art. The paper draws parallels between the 20th century development of sociological practice and of compositional practice, most especially the embrace of "total explanation" in the former and "totally organized music" in the latter. I argue for the benefits of a dialogic approach for both, and conclude with an account of a composition of my own, entitled, Assumptions, which applies dialogism to musical composition within the classical tradition.
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