Increasingly in music scholarship, and scholarship for many fields of study, research is focusing on crossing different fields – for example, psychology and business marketing, or biology and computer technology. Many fields have much to gain from such cross-pollination, and music is finding itself at a unique position in scholarship where it is increasingly reliant on inter-field study to stay relevant. A great example of this is the exploding field of music in clinical psychology and counseling. In my research, I chose three different subcategories of music scholarship as examples, and was surprised to find that every one of the authors were actually experts – all having doctorate degrees – in a different field: Psychology, Jewish Studies, and Computer Science. This shows a trend in music to widen their general audiences: as classical music conservatories increasingly shrink and western classical music falls out of favor with the general American public, music scholarship is finding new life in other fields and with new audiences. (Miller), (Morante), (Szeto).
to Drop the Beet(hoven): Audience
to Evidence and Argument: I’ll Let These Letters Speak for Themselves
The Treehouse - Schirmer 