The Galpin Society

The American Musical Instrument Society

CONFERENCE ON MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

Edinburgh

1-4 JUNE 2017

URL: http://www.euchmi.ed.ac.uk/gxso.html

Panel Session

ORGANOLOGY AND THE OTHERS: CROSS-DISCIPLINARY METHODS APPLIED TO THE STUDY OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

Saturday June 5th 11:00 - 12:30, St Cecilia's Hall

The papers linked from this page are pre-circulated in order to facilitate discussion and debate. Each will offer an overview of a particular methodological perspective and will reflect on the questions, challenges, and possibilities it raises for organology. They will be quickly summarised, but not read during the session.

Introduction

Organology and the Others: a Political Perspective - Gabriele Rossi Rognoni (Royal College of Music, London), moderator

Organology and Material Culture - Flora Dennis (University of Sussex)

Museums as Theatre: What About Musical Instruments? - Eric de Visscher (Victoria & Albert Museum, London)

Instruments, History of Science, and STS - Emily I. Dolan (Harvard University)

Actor-Network Theory and Organology - Eliot Bates (Birmingham University)

Further information: e-mail: mimed@ed.ac.uk

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