Lives in Musicology: A Personal Perspective

Abstract

Margaret Bent outlines her own education and career against a background of massive changes: in society, especially as they have affected women and social mobility; in technology (computers and the internet), as it has shaped the way we work; and in disciplinary expansion, with a consequent marginalization of early music and shrinking resources for historical musicology in general. Some transatlantic differences are reviewed, along with changing disciplinary fashions and funding priorities.