...Nicholas Mathew; Mary Ann Smart In this introduction to the forum Quirk Historicism , the editors describe the recent tendency of music scholars, in the wake of New Historicism, to avail themselves of objets trouvés and historical micronarratives for interpretation. © 2015 by The Regents...

...Aoife Monks This essay considers the systems of value that undergird the employment of quirky objects in scholarship and argues that quirk historicism is another iteration of modernism in its attachment to estrangement and theatricality as modes of critique. In doing so, the essay asks why...

...Benjamin Piekut The author shares his experience researching an elusive piece of music, reflecting on the possible causes of quirk historicism and the possible consequences of the postcritical turn. © 2015 by The Regents of the University of California 2015 BENJAMIN PIEKUT Pigeons IN T H E...

... problematics of quirk historicism as well as possible paths forward. As I indicated at the start of this essay, on the surface, the materialist preoccupations of recent music history seem to serve the purposes of demystification turning our attention away from the enchanting musical works blossoming...

.... The quirk in the neologism quirk historicism I think, is meant to imply evasion The bad words for naughty scholars are apparently such adjectives as self- indulgent irresponsible glib deliberately irrelevant Maybe this is true: that there should be more to our making knowledge than cruising...

... is the realization of how limited such quirk historicist methods can be for understanding the very currency in which they trade: things and ideas, their natures and how they move through the world. Quirk historicism does epistemology of a sort, but not ontology; no matter how attentive to so-called material culture...

... and, speci cally, to explore how music produces distinctive kinds of association that are the conditions of political thought and action1 Hindsight suggests that our diagnosis of quirk historicism came at a time when the appeal of such microhistories was already fading. While our dream of new...

...-techne/. 14. See Jonathan Sterne, MP3: The Meaning of a Format (Durham, NC, 2012). 15. This is analyzed and succinctly critiqued in Nicholas Mathew and Mary Ann Smart, Elephants in the Music Room: The Future of Quirk Historicism Representations 132 (2015): 61 78. 16. For a critique of sound studies...

... Journal of the American Musicological Society 62 (2009): 145 203. 52. Mary Ann Smart and Nicholas Mathew, Elephants in the Room: The Future of Quirk Historicism Representations 132 (2015): 61 78. 53. Arman Schwartz, Don t Choose the Nightingale: Timbre, Index, and Birdsong in Respighi s Pini di Roma...

...- diately tangible, those bodies are still in need of much more nuanced historicization. Like James Q. Davies in his recent study of nineteenth- century virtuosity, I suggest that acts of musicking, in their capacity not just to reflect but to generate particular modes of inhabiting the body, offer...

... understanding, astrology covered a lot more ground than a modern newspaper horoscope does. Astrology could account for everything from an individual s personality quirks and dispositions to large-scale political and social events, crop yields, plagues, storms, earthquakes, and more. Its predictive...

...-Century English Narratives 1995 Jill Campbell, Natural Masks: Gender and Identity in Fielding's Plays and Novels (Stanford, Calif., 1995) Campbell Natural Masks: Gender and Identity in Fielding's Plays and Novels 1995 Michael McKeon, "Historicizing Patriarchy: The Emergence of Gender...