Editorial: Acta Musicologica and Multilingualism

Abstract

Ever since the foundation of the International Musicological Society (IMS) in 1927 and the first publication of Acta Musicologica in 1931, fostering multilingualism has been an important issue for both the IMS and its flagship journal. So critical is our commitment to this topic that we addressed it already in our first editorial in 2011. Acta Musicologica seeks to fulfill the objective of international networking and cooperation between and among music scholars throughout the world. There is no such thing as a single global musicological discourse, but rather there are plural discourses, which are articulated through various languages, traditions, and regional and sub-disciplinary cultures. We view pluralism as a virtue and are committed to promoting it in the pages of this journal. We further believe that a fundamental component of such pluralism is multilingualism. . . .