Competition: Write us a piece of hoax musicology

Competition: Write us a piece of hoax musicology

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norman lebrecht

May 23, 2017

It can’t be hard.

A brilliant phoney paper titled ‘The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct’ was accepted and published in a peer-reviewed, gender studies journal.

It contained such beautiful formulations as ‘We conclude that penises are not best understood as the male sexual organ, or as a male reproductive organ, but instead as an enacted social construct that is both damaging and problematic for society and future generations’. Here’s how it was done.

Now let’s apply these enlightened ideas to contemporary musicology.

Here are few gender themes for our creative readers to play around with as abstracts for academic papers:

– Gender suppression as subtext in Schumann’s piano concerto

– Intertextuality in the left hand part of Für Elise

– Manspreading in Mahler

– Penile aggression in Pli selon pli.

Have fun!

There will be a record prize for the winner.

UPDATE: The advanced class may choose to write their papers in the style of (a) Richard Taruskin, (b) Carol Oja or (c) Joachim Kaiser.

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