Writing Accounting and Management History: Insights from Unorthodox Music Historiography
Accounting Historians Journal, 2004
Posted: 8 May 2009
Date Written: 2004
Abstract
Few disciplines are probably more different than music and accounting. Nonetheless possible suggestions about historiography in accounting and management can be drawn from an innovative textbook on the history of music [Favaro and Pestalozza, 1999]. This is a rather unusual music history textbook. It has several distinguishing features which raise issues about: histories of the present, history and theory making, a non-linear sense of history, a social history of music, a pluralist view of genres, and a multi-geographical emphasis. These features have interesting parallels with accounting history and historiography.
Keywords: accounting history, history of the present, pluralism, comparative history
JEL Classification: M10, M40, N01, N80
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