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Jaap Kunst (1891-1960) is regarded as one of the founders of ethnomusicology. Between 1919 and 1934 Kunst made in-depth study of a wide range of music practices in the then…

Post-war serialist composers, such as Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Luigi Nono, Henri Pousseur and Karel Goeyvaerts, are generally known as representatives of a compositional movement that rejected the subjectivist individualism…

In 2022, my book Hearing Maskanda will be published by Bloomsbury Press (Music and Sound Studies). It engages with South African maskanda music, often marketed as “Zulu blues”. I address…

During my PhD research at the University of Oxford, I discovered that music’s status as an art form was distrusted in the context of German idealist philosophy which exerted an…