interviews

A Crazy IMS Idea: “What Word or Concept Would You Like to See Removed?”

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 …

Minding the GAP: Margaret Bent and Lewis Lockwood in Conversation with Daniel Chua

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 …

Thoughts on Public Musicology

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 …