During this time of COVID-19, nothing is normal anymore. So, instead of our usual morsel of Musicological Brainfood, we are providing you with something appropriate for this time when many of us are isolated by an invisible plague. So …
Margaret Bent and Lewis Lockwood, the first recipients of the IMS Guido Adler Prize (IMS GAP), share their thoughts on how the field of musicology has changed over half a century and on the values that drive their research. Daniel …
“Global” is hot. Witness: global history of ideas, global history of philosophy, global history of science, global medieval studies, global history of music, etc. Laudably, the recent and various global-historical turns have been accompanied by self-critical reflections on the methods …
I’ve long been struck by how historical musicologists working on what they call “Western Art Music” (in English, at least) consider the conceptual boundaries of their subject to be self-evident. There are conventions for studying, performing, and listening; a standardized …
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 …
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 …
