Simon Zagorski-Thomas is Professor at the London College of Music, University of West London, UK, and is Co-Chairman of the Association for the Study of the Art of Record Production. He worked for 25 years as a composer, sound engineer, and producer and is, at present, conducting research into 21st Century Musical Practice. His books include The Art of Record Production (2012), co-edited with Simon Frith, and The Musicology of Record Production (2014), winner of the 2015 IASPM Book Prize.

What could musicology be in the 21st century? In his book, Simon Zagorski-Thomas outlines a practical musicology that wholeheartedly embraces all contemporary forms of sound and music production between streaming audio, game sounds, EDM and engineering a record production. The future of musicology, as Zagorski-Thomas envisions it, is a musicology that provides historical and technological knowledge and critique of how music and sound are actually produced, presented, experienced and consumed: a comprehensive musicology of aesthetic practices, which is indeed urgently needed.

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