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Study Group “Comparative Perspectives on Genetic Criticism” Mission Statement The IMS Study Group “Comparative Perspectives on Genetic Criticism” (CPGC) aims to provide an international forum for scholars investigating genetic process in music. The purpose of the study group is to promote…

Study Group “Early Music and the New World” Mission Statement The mission of the IMS Study Group “Early Music and the New World / Música Antigua y Nuevo Mundo” is to further knowledge about music in Latin America from the…

Study Group “Global History of Music” Mission Statement The purpose of the IMS Study Group “Global History of Music” is to promote macrohistorical thinking about global connections, patterns, and processes in human musicking, and to develop theoretical frameworks for musicology…

Study Group “Music Migrations and Networking” Mission Statement Living in a world of global mobility, issues of religious, national, and political identity are clearly understood as unstable. However, questions of mobility and identity are not unique to the past century.…

Study Group “Opera and the Spanish Empire (1600–1900)” Mission Statement With the rise of postcolonial debates in the 1990s, musicological scholarship increasingly turned to opera as a privileged lens through which to examine Europe’s imperial processes from 1600 onward. Opera’s…

Study Group “Popular Music” Mission Statement Until the end of the eighteenth century, (urban) popular music shared spaces, instruments, genres, and even musicians with classical music. However, during the nineteenth century, both music practices began to diverge, particularly with the…