Sławomir Wieczorek is a lecturer in musicology in the Institute of Musicology, University of Wrocław. His interests are twentieth-century music, contemporary music, historical soundscapes, and the methodology of sound studies and cultural musicology.

• Chapter 1 Introductory IssuesChapter 2 Discourse on Contemporary Music: A Hierarchy of StatementsChapter 3 Discourse on Aesthetics and Music Theory: Exegeses and Rationalized LegitimizationsChapter 4 Discourse on Music History: Hagiography and Legitimizing Narratives

Sławomir Wieczorek is a lecturer in musicology in the Institute of Musicology, University of Wrocław. His interests are twentieth-century music, contemporary music, historical soundscapes, and the methodology of sound studies and cultural musicology.

• Chapter 1 Introductory IssuesChapter 2 Discourse on Contemporary Music: A Hierarchy of StatementsChapter 3 Discourse on Aesthetics and Music Theory: Exegeses and Rationalized LegitimizationsChapter 4 Discourse on Music History: Hagiography and Legitimizing Narratives

Sławomir Wieczorek is a lecturer in musicology in the Institute of Musicology, University of Wrocław. His interests are twentieth-century music, contemporary music, historical soundscapes, and the methodology of sound studies and cultural musicology.

• Chapter 1 Introductory IssuesChapter 2 Discourse on Contemporary Music: A Hierarchy of StatementsChapter 3 Discourse on Aesthetics and Music Theory: Exegeses and Rationalized LegitimizationsChapter 4 Discourse on Music History: Hagiography and Legitimizing Narratives