Vol. 2 • No. 3 • 2018

Stand Up! Musicology Goes Public

Edited by Lukas Christensen and Daniel K. L. Chua

In this issue of IMS Musicological Brainfood, Zdravko Blažeković, Richard Taruskin, and Laura Tunbridge consider moving musicology from its ivory tower into the market square. Should we take a stand?

The Mission of Musicologists in Cultural Preservation

Various forms of religious radicalism, extreme nationalism, ethnic expulsions, and ill-conceived policies of the political and military superpowers have led to armed conflicts and large-scale destruction of tangible and intangible heritage in recent years, making its preservation a critically urgent …

Thoughts on Public Musicology

Public engagement is something academics increasingly are being encouraged to do by their institutions, be they universities, conservatoires, museums, or scholarly societies. It’s probably a good thing to get people out of their ivory towers but is “public musicology” really …