Baltic Musics/Baltic Musicologies

Kevin C. Karnes is Assistant Professor of Music History at Emory University (USA). He is the author of Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of History (Oxford University Press, 2008), and co-editor of the revised and expanded edition of Brahms and His World (Princeton University Press, 2009).Joachim Braun is Professor (Emeritus) of Music at Bar-Ilan University (Israel). He is the author of On Jewish Music (Peter Lang 2006), Music in Ancient Israel/Palestine (Walter B. Eerdmans, 2002), and Studies: Music in Latvia (Musica Baltica, 2002).

• 1. Introduction Kevin C. Karnes and Joachim Braun2. Reconsidering Musicology in the Baltic States of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia: 1990-2006 Joachim Braun3. Late- and Post-Soviet Music Scholarship and the Tenacious Ecumenicity of Christian Musics in Estonia Jeffers Engelhardt4. Lithuanian Musicology in Historical Context: 1945 to the Present Vita Gruodyte5. Soviet Musicology and the ‘Nationalities Question’: The Case of Latvia Kevin C. Karnes6. Modernist Trends in Estonian Musicology in the 1970s-1980s and the Study of Folk Melodies Urve Lippus7. Muzikologia/Muzikas zinatne: A Critical History of Latvian Musicology Martin Boiko8. Exiled Modernism: Lithuanian Music through the Second World War Gražina Daunoraviciene