Caveats



  • post-modernist:
    we are in perpetual danger of self-deception ...
    of assuming our stories are true
  • E.g. set theory

    some wonderful insights and ideas ...

    ... but ... Francés (1958), Thrall (1962), Pedersen (1970), Lannoy (1972), Largent (1972), Bruner (1984), Millar (1984), Gibson (1988, 1993)
  • music psychologists as "naysayers"
    a suspiciously conservative agenda:

    most early music psychologists were psychologists
    (with conservative musical tastes)

    music psychology attracted musicians who thought the new music was "unnatural"

    ... no longer fair characterization