Vol. 2 • No. 1 • 2018

Musicology from East to West

Edited by Lukas Christensen and Daniel K. L. Chua

In our first volume of IMS Musicological Brainfood (2017) we went exo-musicological and visited outer space; in the second issue we will stay firmly on planet earth and consider the question of a global musicology—past, present, and future—with an eminent scholar from the East, Yosihiko Tokumaru, and one from the West, Reinhard Strohm.

Contemplating Musicology from Japanese Perspectives

The task of musicology (Musikwissenschaft in German, musicologie in French, and ongakugaku in Japanese) in its proper sense is to study music of the past, present, and future regardless of region. For this purpose, various methods have been proposed and …

Tradition, Heritage, History: A View on Language

I remember the time (1981) when the IFMC—the International Folk Music Council—renamed itself ICTM (International Council of Traditional Music). I was relieved to hear this, because, as a German brought up in the 1950s, I had learned to suspect the …