Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I The Boundaries of the Arts and Aesthetics -- 1 Hard Times, Hard Boundaries -- 2 History, Philosophy, and the Canons of the Arts -- 3 Uses of History in Some Recent Aesthetic Writings -- Part II Boundaries in Music -- 4 Fragmentation in the Musical Field -- 5 Soft Boundaries and Relatedness: A New Paradigm for Understanding Music -- 6 Soft Boundaries, Autonomist/Formalist Aesthetics, and Music Theory -- Part III Soft Boundaries and the Future -- 7 Integrating History, Theory, and Practice in the College Music Curriculum -- 8 Towards Integrative, Interdisciplinary Education in the Arts and Aesthetics -- 9 Virtual Reality and Aesthetic Competence in the Twenty- First Century -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.