Winner, Ruth A. Solie Award, American Musicological Society
“Ambitious, novel and important...should be required reading for anyone who is a scholar or student of music”
“Highly recommended for all scholars, in both the humanities and the sciences, who are ready to face, probe, and move beyond conceptual, methodological, and institutional rifts in pursuing earnest interdisciplinary collaborations in music studies”
The Science-Music Borderlands: Reckoning with the Past and Imagining the Future, co-edited with Psyche Loui and Deirdre Loughridge.
MIT Press, 2023.
The study of music as a cognitive science has become increasingly influential in recent decades. On one hand, scientific methods and approaches possess tremendous potential to advance our understanding of music and musicality across human societies. On the other hand, they have not yet grappled with some of the perils that humanistic fields concentrating on music have long articulated. This volume brings sustained attention to core disciplinary questions from music scholars across the sciences and the humanities, providing the scientific study of music with its first major reckoning, and charting a path forward for the field. It surveys the problem space of music science, with an eye toward the people, musics, and approaches that get left in the cracks of this parcellated space. Going beyond lip service to interdisciplinarity, it immerses readers in a diverse field struggling with questions at the core of how knowledge is produced.