Exploring connections between music, place and research
edited by Elizabeth Mackinlay, Brydie-Leigh Bartleet and Katelyn Barney. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009.
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Following the highly successful MSA NZMS Islands Conference, co-hosted by QCRC in 2007, a publication Musical Islands was launched in late-2009.
The island is a powerful metaphor in everyday speech which extends almost naturally into several academic disciplines, including musicology. Islands are imagined as isolated and unique places where strange, exotic, different and unexpected treasures can be found by daring adventurers. The magic inherent within this positioning of islands as places of discovery is an aspect which permeates the theoretical, methodological and analytical boundaries of this edited book. Showcasing the breadth of current musicological research in Australia and New Zealand, this edited collection offers a range of subtle and innovative reflections on this concept both in established and well-charted territories of music research.