I have contributed a chapter to a forthcoming collection on Print and Tourism, which is being published by Peter Lang. The completed manuscript will soon be going to the publishers, which is very exciting. You might ask what a musicologist was doing, writing about print and tourism? Well, it won’t be long before all is revealed.
I had enormous fun writing this chapter, and I think folk will enjoy reading it. It’s different. Well, that’s hardly surprising, given the subject matter, but I’ve placed it in a wider cultural context than my usual more musicological offerings, and I’m really looking forward to seeing it in print.
A Question for You: What’s significant?
The topic arose from a book I acquired during lockdown. Ironically, it was only a couple of weeks ago that it dawned on me that not only would we need to buy the essay collection for RCS’s library, but we’d also need a copy of the book which inspired it! I can’t think why that didn’t occur to me sooner, but it is on order and on its way, so I’ll be cataloguing it very soon. We’ll have it well before the essay collection is finally published!
So, your challenge is this: Can you work out what is significant about this map?!
I would never, ever have dreamed, when I went to Exeter to start my first, unfinished doctoral studies on mediaeval English plainsong and polyphony, that I would end up completing a different PhD thirty years on, and writing and being published on such a very different topic!
Karen McAulay, Musicologist 