Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology

<p><i>The Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology</i> brings together academics artist-researchers and practitioners to provide readers with an extensive and authoritative overview of applied musicology.</p><p>Once a field that addressed music’s socio-political or performative contexts applied musicology today encompasses study and practice in areas as diverse as psychology ecomusicology organology forensic musicology music therapy health and well-being and other public-oriented musicologies. These rapid advances have created a fast-changing field whose scholarship and activities tend to take place in isolation from each other. This volume addresses that shortcoming bringing together a wide-ranging survey of current approaches.</p><p>Featuring 39 authors <i>The Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology</i> falls into five parts—Defining and Theorising Applied Musicology; Public Engagement; New Approaches and Research Methods; Representation and Inclusion; and Musicology in/for Performance—that chronicle the subject’s rich history and consider the connections that will characterise its future. The book offers an essential resource for anyone exploring applied musicology.</p>