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new roundtable: book reviews in musicology (Open Access for a few weeks!)

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    • 9 April 2021 at 2:37 pm EDT #44164

      Ralph P. Locke
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      @rlocke

      Are book reviews important for the field of music scholarship, and why?

      Should a graduate student write one (and with what kind of mentoring)?

      How should a reviewer handle a book that is problematic in tone, or that takes a strong view on a contentious topic?

      Should a reviewer summarize a book or evaluate it? treat all portions of a wide-ranging book in equal detail…?

      These and other timely questions are discussed at a lively Roundtable that has just been published online in Journal of Musicological Research (vol. 40, no. 2).

      The participants are Travis Stimeling (reviews editor of the Journal of the Society for American Music), David Suisman (reviews editor of Journal of Popular Music Studies), Lily Hirsch (reviews editor of JMR itself), and Marian Wilson Kimber (Lily’s predecessor at JMR).

      The Roundtable is entitled (what else?!) “Reviewing the Book Review.”

      The publisher (Taylor & Francis) has kindly made it available, Open Access, until the end of May. Here’s the link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01411896.2021.1902725?src=

      Happy reading!

      (And happy review-reading and review-writing!)

       

      Ralph Locke

      (member of the Advisory Board of JMR)

      rlocke@esm.rochester.edu

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