At “The Past, Present and Future of Public Musicology” conference this past weekend, it is nice to hear some of my colleagues “come out” as “public musicologists.” It seems to me that, in order for “public musicology” to go forward and to gain legitimacy (I am aware that this is very problematic), one thing we MUST do is to get rid of is the idea that “real musicologists” work at universities. At the conference, Felicia Miyakawa talked about the thought process she went through as she resigned from Middle Tennessee State University. As she is a lot more eloquent than me, I am simply going to provide the link to the blog she wrote after the conference: http://fmmiyakawa.com/2015/02/01/on-being-brave-publicmusicology/.
I would like to know your thoughts on how to build on the momentum generated by the conference, and on Felicia’s blog.
Thanks, Eric! Yes, yes, let’s keep this conversation going!