Colloque « “An Adventurous Undertaking”. Reconsidering Music Criticism in the 21st Century », Université Harvard, 12-13 avril 2024.

« As the organizers of the 1947 Symposium remarked, music criticism can never hope to be “a panacea to all our musical ills” (whatever those may be). But in light of the enormous musical, social and media developments since the mid-1940s, we take the opportunity of this anniversary to return to the topic of music criticism explored at Harvard 76 years ago. We seek to revisit existential questions about the practice and purpose of public writing about music, though with a critical eye, and ear, to the subsequent transformations in music, media, and the cultures that consume them, and to the many peoples and musical traditions the original symposium neglected. »

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