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“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 …
What blessed times they were when all people still understood each other, “and the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech” (Genesis 11:1). The Biblical story of the Tower of Babel is one about the hubris of …
The task of musicology (Musikwissenschaft in German, musicologie in French, and ongakugaku in Japanese) in its proper sense is to study music of the past, present, and future regardless of region. For this purpose, various methods have been proposed and …