Publications and Research
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.