Richard Taruskin

Richard Taruskin received his BA magna cum laude (1965), MA (1968), and PhD in historical musicology (1976) from Columbia University. He was an emeritus professor of the University of California at Berkeley and the recipient of numerous awards, including Greenberg Prize (1978), Alfred Einstein Award (1980), Dent Medal (1987), Kinkeldey Prize (1997), and Kyoto Prize (2017).

Vol. 2 • No. 3 • 2018

Thoughts on Public Musicology

Richard Taruskin, Laura Tunbridge

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 …