Wright, D. C. H. (2024) Musicology and its discontents. The Musical Times, 165 (1969) pp. 5-16. ISSN 0027-4666 (print) 2397-5318 (online)
Abstract
This year, 2024, is the 150th anniversary of the Royal Musical Association (RMA), an occasion which is being marked with a history by Leanne Langley, in which she traces the Association’s course from its origins as a learned society with an essentially amateur scholarly membership in 1874, to its current identity, now firmly rooted within the professional academic community. The shaping and evolution of British musicology is an integral element of this account, and how it was influenced through the RMA’s agency into a fully fledged academic discipline within the modern British university system. But, as Langley shows, this was by no means an uncomplicated trajectory, while, more recently, musicology’s very function, nature and practice has become strongly contested.
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