Musicianship and Music Scholarship in Dialogue

This article is based on a panel discussion that took place at the Symposium for Music Scholars in Finland in Jyväskylä on May 6th 2022. In the panel discussion, we wanted to share with others some of the themes we had been discussing in WWW team meetings. Although everyone in the project team works on their own (sub)projects, what unites us and many of the people that we collaborate with, is that we are women and work with music, either as musicians or as researchers. Most of us also share the experience of being mothers, which affects our work as musicians and/or researchers in many different ways. Since the WWW project combines art and research, music and ethnomusicology, to be more precise, we are engaging in dialogues between musicians and music scholars already within the project team in addition to the dialogues with our collaborators. Here, we focus on the dialogues relevant to our work that have involved crossing cultural, social and/or musical borders, and the relevance of music-making in these dialogues.