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Call for papers: Music-making in Australia

Transnational and transcultural exchange have long attracted scholarly investigation, but how to frame and analyse such contact has proved an ongoing challenge. Recently, the idea of 'global music history' has attracted music scholars as a new framework to explore the complex issues surrounding cultural contact, exchange, and entanglement from a decentred, non-hierarchical perspective, but it has also attracted criticism for reviving the problematic legacy of comparative musicology and appropriating approaches long used outside the Anglosphere. A special issue of the Journal of Musicological Research welcomes proposals of previously unpublished material that ask what research on Australian music and musicians can contribute to these discussions.

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