Guest Editor’s Column

Abstract

The wide span of themes, methods and perspectives in this issue of Puls testifies to the expansion of the epistemological expectations in ethnomusicology, or, the increasing number of fields in which ethnomusicology can claim a position and make substantial contributions. The articles in this issue address themes such as:

•The affordance to make music that an audience offers musicians.
•The technical possibilities and restraints of different media and the conventions on how to handle them.
•The changing of meanings and performance practices when music is moved across time, space and social networks.
•Music being comprehensible by establishing patterns – and patterns of deviating from patterns.
•Music representing audiences and musicians, musicians and audiences representing music, musicians and audiences representing or challenging each other by the means of music.
• Music and society constructing and reconstructing each other.