Guthrie P. Ramsey in Ethnomusicology Review

In Ethnomusicology Review, Musiqology Editor in Chief, Guthrie P. Ramsey, discusses the challenges of extending discourse beyond the academy and into the social media and pop culture realms. He says,

But there were challenges to my new outlook and interest. I needed to appreciate that the traditional media of print, radio, and television weren’t the only ways to disseminate my work. And that, in fact, the immediacy and control over information were the most powerful aspects of the digital world. Although many people had complimented me on the accessibility of my scholarly writing style, it soon became clear to me that writing for readers beyond the academy would take a lot of practice. Since the bloggers I admired most had been doing it for years, I learned to model their compression and hard-hitting styles. Although I admittedly have not yet acquired the appetite for the continuous cycle of controversies to which other bloggers are motivated to respond, I love introducing historical topics into the digital mix.

Read the full article here.