In the following interview, Mark Evan Bonds speaks with AMS Studies in Music Series Editor Gurminder K. Bhogal about his new book, Music’s Fourth Wall and the Rise of Reflective Listening. The book is published as part of AMS Studies in Music in partnership with Oxford University Press and can be readily accessed in print and as an e-Book. AMS Managing Editor Jordan Musser introduces the conversation.
Mark Evan Bonds is Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests include music of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, particularly instrumental music, aesthetic theory, and the intersections of music and philosophy. He has received fellowships in support of his research from the NEH, the ACLS, the National Humanities Center, the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), and the Austrian Science Foundation (FWF). His other recent books are The Beethoven Syndrome: Hearing Music as Autobiography and Beethoven: Variations on a Life, both published by Oxford University Press in 2020.
Gurminder K. Bhogal is the Catherine Mills Davis Professor of Music at Wellesley College. She has published two books with Oxford University Press: Details of Consequence: Ornament, Music, and Art in Paris (2013); and Claude Debussy’s Clair de Lune (2018). Her third monograph, Sikh Kirtan and Its Journeys: Instruments, Theories, Technologies, is forthcoming from The University of Chicago Press. She has served as Review Editor for the Journal of the American Musicological Society and is currently Series Editor for the AMS Studies in Music series.
