Musicology
Musicology is a large field of studies considered by Colleagues in Music at Newcastle University, with more than half the academic staff engaging in research and teaching in this area. It includes the usual range of sub-disciplines:
- historical musicology
- popular music studies
- ethnomusicology
- music analysis
We also work and teach in the recent sub-disciplines of musicology including:
- sound studies (including sound art and noise studies)
- music, gender and sexuality
- music and politics
- music and policy
- music and consciousness
- popular and vernacular music
- music and globalisation
- the history of recording and other sound reproduction technologies
- music and diaspora
- music and urban environments
- music theory (Musicianship)
- music pedagogy