Mapping Music History

历史音乐学家现在更加关注过去演出发生的地理背景。在地理信息系统（GIS）软件日益普及的推动下，他们现在也可以比以往任何时候都更容易地可视化和分析跨越时间和地点的复杂趋势。在当代音乐研究和城市声音研究的基础上，该网络将探讨将地图作为音乐史和遗产研究的对象和方法的利害关系。这些问题不仅是方法论上的，而且是政治上的。这个网络的部分前提是，制图从来都不是无辜或中立的。鉴于越来越多的音乐学家正在将他们的发现绘制到世界的二维表示上，建立一个重要的论坛来绘制音乐实践的地图——过去、现在和未来——是至关重要的。该网络将采取四次会议的形式，汇集来自不同学科（音乐学、文学、戏剧、建筑、地理、遗产、城市研究、数字人文）和部门（学术研究、档案和博物馆、艺术咨询和城市规划）的参与者。纽卡斯尔大学将主办第一次也是规模最大的会议（约35人），会议将评估该网络中所代表的学科和专业范围内的当前工作。利物浦大学将主办第二次规模较小的会议（约20人），会议的重点是将遗产和旅游作为绘制音乐史的背景。哈佛大学（Harvard University）将主办第三次会议（同样是约20人），会议将重点讨论漫长的19世纪的音乐和殖民地图。伦敦大学学院巴特利特建筑学院将主办最后一次会议（同样约20人），会议将重点关注声音和城市主义作为绘制音乐史的背景。

Historical musicologists are now paying greater attention to the geographical contexts in which past performances took place. Fuelled by the increasing accessibility of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software, they can now also visualize and analyse complicated trends across time and place with greater ease than ever before. Building on work in contemporary music studies and urban sound studies, this network will ask what is at stake in turning to maps as objects and methods in music history and heritage. These questions are not merely methodological but also political. Part of the premise of this network is that cartography has never been innocent or neutral. Given that more and more musicologists are plotting their findings onto two-dimensional representations of the world, it is vital to establish a critical forum for the mapping of the musical practice - past, present and future.The network will take the form of four meetings bringing together participants from across disciplines (musicology, literature, theatre, architecture, geography, heritage, urban studies, digital humanities) and sectors (academic research, archives and museums, arts consultancy and urban planning). Newcastle University will host the first and largest meeting (c. 35 people), which will take stock of current work across the range of disciplines and professions represented in the network. Liverpool University will host the second, smaller meeting (c. 20 people), which will focus on heritage and tourism as contexts for mapping music history. Harvard University will host the third meeting (also c. 20 people), which will focus on music and colonial mapping in the long nineteenth century. The Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London will host the final meeting (again c. 20 people), which will focus on sound and urbanism as contexts for mapping music history.