After listening to a stunning, galvanizing performance by Daniel K. L. Chua in support of global musicology (inaugural lecture at the 2019 ARLAC conference), our research group, the Grupo de Musicología Histórica, set up a series of seminar-like meetings to explore …
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 …
I remember the time (1981) when the IFMC—the International Folk Music Council—renamed itself ICTM (International Council of Traditional Music). I was relieved to hear this, because, as a German brought up in the 1950s, I had learned to suspect the …
