diff --git a/_includes/presentations/shanahan.aton b/_includes/presentations/shanahan.aton index a2ee926..89ab1c6 100644 --- a/_includes/presentations/shanahan.aton +++ b/_includes/presentations/shanahan.aton @@ -9,7 +9,9 @@ @affiliation: Northwestern University @date: 2024-10-24 @time: 10:00 -@abstract: In one of the earliest studies employing a computer to explore collections of musical data, Bertrand Bronson wrote in 1949 +@abstract: + +In one of the earliest studies employing a computer to explore collections of musical data, Bertrand Bronson wrote in 1949 that "scholars in the fields of the Humanities are habitually (and properly) afraid of statistical machinery." Nevertheless, research in the following decades saw a growth in research questions aimed at using the computer as a way of exploring questions of musical style, authorship, and performance analysis, among others. @@ -22,6 +24,7 @@ initiatives to succeed, and what caused others to fail. I argue that an ahistori issues in the current fields of corpus studies and computational musicology has sometimes contributed to a sort of intellectual stasis, and that by understanding the long history of analytical dilemmas and decisions faced by scholars of previous generations, we might be better equipped to push the field into new and more exciting directions. + @@END: PRESENTATION