New Edited Volume Explores Global Perspectives in Musicology

Their new book, Global Musicology: Music Histories from ‘Elsewhere’, offers a brave attempt at doing musicology as musicologists in a globally connected world. With scholars from across the globe, it explores what we might gain by learning about the connected histories of musicologies from both outside the West and in relation to the West. The ‘elsewhere’ of the subtitle playfully unsettles long-held assumptions about centres and peripheries, inviting readers to use perspectives from beyond the Anglo-American mainstream as a lens through which to reflect on their own musicological foundations.