Debate: Are we all Ethnomusicologists now?

• Chair: Alexander Lingas (City University London)
• Amanda Bayley (Bath Spa University )
• Tore Lind (University of Copenhagen)
• Michael Spitzer (University of Liverpool) Laudan Nooshin (City University London) Ian Pace (City University London)

In a famous 2008 article, Nicholas Cook suggested that the boundaries between sub-disciplines of music had become more porous so that “distinguishing between musicology and ethnomusicology seems … as hopeless as it is pointless.” This led to his oft-cited statement: “we are all ethnomusicologists now.” Does Cook’s provocation stand up?