In Edward Said's Orientalism, p.10
"To some extent the political importance given a field comes from the possibility of its direct translation into economic terms; but to a greater extent political importance comes from the closeness of a field to ascertainable sources of power in political society."
Whereas Said's talking about the Cold War, what if I translate "political society" as the musicological institution, which I am entering? What should my thesis topic be about?
(yes, I know I should "be myself"... yes, I know...)
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