Vol. 8 • No. 1 • 2024

Lost without Translations: Global Musicology Redux

Edited by Gavin S. K. Lee and Melanie Plesch

Global musicologists speak in different tongues. Global musicology, therefore, urgently needs translations. This issue explores why we translate, and how to go about it. Learn how global musicology runs on translations.

How to Go about Translation Work? Ethnomusicology Translations as a Model

In this third installment in our series on the importance of translation for global musicology, Gavin S. K. Lee sought out scholars involved with Ethnomusicology Translations …

Zong Lin (ca. 501–565), Chronicles of Seasonal Customs in Jing Chu, a record of the Jing ethnic group

Harnessing Ethnomusicology for Chinese Historical Musicology

Among the historical writings of China, there are many works about—what we now call—ethnic groups, such as “Annals of Wu and Yue,” “The Book of the Extinction of Yue,” …

Why Translation Matters: Global Musicologists Speak Out

Global musicology is like a puzzle that is always in construction, with its pieces constituted by multiple research circles around the world, using myriad global languages in the course of research and …