Poster

Public, applied, shared musicology… New names for musical research with a social impact?

What do the notions of public musicology (Hess, 2013), applied musicology (Pinson, 2009), shared musicology (Badol-Bertrand 2011), practical musicology (Bernard, 2020) and musicologically informed mediation (Pébrier-Kirchberg, 2021) refer to? This poster aims to demonstrate how the objectives of cultural mediation are declined in the musicological field. Inspired by the representation in the form of concept networks by Louis-Claude Paquin and Cynthia Noury ​​(2018), this poster presents the major epistemological, communicational, and methodological issues related to the terminology used by researchers. Produced using Obsidian software, the poster offers an interactive view clarifying the postures, practices and theories associated with the concepts of practical, applied, shared and public musicology, which are linked to specific devices, such as reading recitals or pre-concert videos. It allows to explore the “boundaries and the porosity of terminology” specifically surrounding the musicological appropriation of the mediation of music.

Biography

Bachelor’s student in classical piano performance at the University of Montreal since 2018, Paola Deteix is ​​interested in the mediation of music and the new possibilities it offers for performers and musicologists. Introduced to mediation during her participation in the third International Winter School of Music Mediation in Paris in 2020, she has since been a member of the student laboratory and research assistant at the Partnership Study on Music Mediation. Since 2019, she has produced more than a dozen videos to promote the research of EPMM and OICRM members. She will begin her master’s degree in autumn 2022, with a project on public expectations and reluctance towards public musicology. This sociomusicological project in collaboration with Orford Musique will lead to the creation of a guide to good practices for institutions, mediators and musicians.