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© 2017, V&R unipress GmbH, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783847107217 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783737007214 enceofmusicology.Theproceedsfromtheauctionofthemanuscriptwere donatedtocharity.”ThemanuscriptwasofMahler’ssong IchbinderWelt abhandengekommen,andthecomposergaveittoAdlerin1905asafiftieth birthday present. This is anotherway inwhich theworld ofGuidoAdler was transplanted toAmerica. NegativeAssociationsandResistance toAdlerian Ideas PVB: Doyouthinkofanynegativeassociations?Anysenseinwhichtherewere moments inwhichcertainscholars,orcertainmoments inthehistoryof American musicology, when it was time to establish something that didn’t takeonthatAustro-German, thatViennesemodel. I’mnot trying toseeadirectconnectionhere,butratheragainakindofawareness,even apedagogical awareness. BN: WhenIfirstcametotheUniversityof Illinois, thedepartmenthadvery much been established under and with the influence from Dragan Plamenac and people he trusted, like Alexander Ringer and Claude Palisca75(1921–2001).OneareawhichwasnotsupportedwasAmerican music. Therewas a bit of conflict about this. I also lookbackand say, “yes, the earliest people who did Ph.D. dissertations did work on Americanmusic,buttheydiditunderScottGoldthwaite76(1901–1981), andtheywerereallyconsidereda littleontheoutside.”WhenIcameto Illinois, Charles Hamm77 (1925–2011) wanted to teach a course on Americanmusic.Atfirst,therewassomequestionastowhetherthiswas aworthysubject foranentireyear’s course.Whether therewasenough goodmusic.Whichbringsmetothenotionthatonethingmusicologists are supposed to do is decide what music is good enough, worthy enough, forstudy. Iguess thismaybeanattitudethatAdlerwouldhave promulgated, butprobablyeverybodyelsewouldhave too.The ideaof studying somekindofmusic simplybecause it’s there, or aparticular groupof people associatedwith it, thatwasnew. I have to say thatmy father always took that as his goal, the study of neglectedmusic. But there was an attitude, which I think prevailed, but it was associated 75 Claude Palisca was anAmericanmusicologist who specialized primarily on early music, especially themusic of the Renaissance in Italy. Formost of his teaching career he was professorofmusicatYaleUniversity. 76 Scott Goldthwaite was an American music historian who contributed substantially to establish the field ofmusicology at theUniversity of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign in the yearsafterWorldWar II. 77 Charles Hammwas an American musicologist who worked across a number of areas, especiallymusicof theRenaissance,Americanmusic, andpopularmusic.He taught at the Universityof Illinois andDartmouthCollege. PhilipV.Bohlman/BrunoNettl224 Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY-NC-ND 4.0