Post-structuralism and Music Theory (A Response to Adam Krims)

Authors

Joseph N. Straus, CUNY Graduate CenterFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2009

Abstract

In a recent article in this journal, Adam Krims has argued that mainstream music theory, with its organicist bias, is fundamentally incompatible with post-structuralist thought. This commentary is a defense of theory-based analysis in a postmodern world.

Comments

This item appeared in Music Theory Online in Volume 1, Issue 1 on January 1995. It was authored by Joseph N. Straus, jstraus@gc.cuny.edu, with whose written permission it is reprinted here.