Global Musicology Music Histories from Elsewhere

This edited volume is a global music history project that refuses to shy away from the geopolitical realities of a global musicology. With an ironic undertone to the ‘elsewhere’ the book's title, contributors to this volume grapple with the ethical and democratising potentials of musicology's recent "global turn." The aim of this volume is to make room for voices from outside of the Euro-American mainstream, in order to create a material difference to the frequent scarcity of non-Western scholars in the Euro-American conception of global music history. By bringing a small group of scholars’ work into a more readily available space given by a sizable Anglo-American publisher, the book aims to enable more multidirectional exchanges and connections to take place in the future.

1. Introduction.- Part 1: Theorising global music history, theorising global musicology.- 2. ‘Alternative modernities: exploring the contexts of Latin American professional musicians in the 19th and 20th centuries’.- 3.‘“Order structure” of musicology: can there be a “global musicology”?’.- 4. ‘Half a Century of Musicology in Tunisia: A Prosopographical Study’.- Part 2: Local ‘pieces of a puzzle’.- 4. ‘Music in Brazil or Brazilian Music? The construction of musical nationalism during Brazil’s First Republic (1889-1930)’.- 5. ‘Reading Becoming to Being Filipino: Music in Manila’s Newspapers 1860-1940’.- 6. ‘South African opera: Representations of societal transformation’.- Part 3. Circumventing the West?.- 7. ‘Ludpig and a hostel: canonical afterlives in prismatic play’.- 8. ‘Writing and re-writing music histories: mentality changes in Romanian musicology’.- 9. ‘Afro Sino Music Pedagogy: Towards a Trans-Diasporic Method’.

Amanda Hsieh is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Durham University (UK).

Vera Wolkowicz is Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (FR).