The question of whether music has meaning has been the subject of sustained debate ever since music became a subject of academic inquiry. This book presents a s

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In The Discourse of Musicology, Giles Hooper considers a number of issues central to recent debates about the nature and direction of contemporary musicology. T

We communicate multimodally. Everyday communication involves not only words, but gestures, images, videos, sounds and of course, music. Music has traditionally