Music, Society, Agency Musicologists have increasingly taken a wide-angled lens on the study of music in society, to explore how it can be intertwined with issues of politics, gender, religion, race, psychology, memory, and space. Recent studies of music in connection with society take in a variety of musical phenomena from diverse periods and…[Read more]

At the meeting or the MSA opera study group at the National Conference last December members expressed interest in organising a symposium to coincide with the National Opera’s production of Alcina in Canberra in December 2022. It will be a significant production, dedicated to the memory of Dame Joan Sutherland, and Richard Bonynge (now patron of t…[Read more]