Communications

In the previous issue of this journal, Kevin Korsyn criticizes my review of his book Decentering Music: A Critique of Contemporary Musical Research.1 He draws attention to an article I wrote for a 2005 special issue on deconstruction and music in Muzikoloski Zbornik / Musicological Annual, "Music in the Thought of Deconstruction / Deconstruction in the Thought of Music (For Joseph Dubiel)" (henceforth "Deconstruction" in MZ);2 his response to that article;3 and my reply to him.4 The article, which is not primarily concerned witii Korsyn's work, describes a resonance between musical thought and Derrida's model of language in the context of various musical analyses. 7 This logic, suggesting that noting a grain of truth in an argument should signal a wholesale conversion to it, is odd in the context of a debate grounded in dialectical thought (which far from rendering antitheses null and void acknowledges their productive valence).