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In a moment of simple yet striking eloquence Daniel K. L. Chua, the new President of the International Musicological Society, placed a globe of the world on the table before him as he began his presidential remarks on March 22, 2017 at the General Assembly of the twentieth congress of the IMS in Tokyo. This globe, President Chua went on to explain, was in many ways the common subject of the IMS, its materiality representative of the world music scholars collectively strove to understand. Together, we occupied its common surface. Across centuries, that globe had shaped the geography of musical encounter and channeled the currents of cultural exchange. Collectively, the IMS and music scholars worldwide must and would embrace the challenges of their common journey into a future symbolized so strikingly by the globe Chua held in his hands. . . .