It has been five years since Daniel K. L. Chua took up the presidency of the IMS and instituted Musicological Brainfood. As a grand final gesture, he has made a video that tries to encapsulate the pithy, informal, and provocative spirit of this online publication and its main theme …
Conceived as a brainstorm, rather than an academic article, this unorthodox text speaks to what a perspective from Cuba would contribute to musicology, the state of musicology in Cuba, and how its history is shaping the present. To this end, …
When Dinko Fabris, IMS Immediate Past President, and Daniel K. L. Chua, IMS President, asked me to write a brief article for Musicological Brainfood, I was really wondering where to start. I thought the best option for me is to …
For this issue of Musicological Brainfood, we asked the members of the IMS Directorium (the IMS Governing Board) to write no more than seven sentences on the following question: “In your opinion, what word or concept would you like to see removed …
Among the most unexpected and disconcerting side effects of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the silence that has accompanied much of the lockdown. Despite the creative flowering of impromptu balcony concerts and online musical events that it has in some …
Born in Adelaide in 1940, I fell asleep as a child every night to music played by my amateur violinist father and pianist mother and their musician friends. Not surprisingly I acquired a love of classical music, learning piano from …
