This volume brings together prominent scholars, artists, composers, and directors to present the latest interdisciplinary ideas and projects in the fields of art history, musicology and multi-media practice. Organized around ways of perceiving, experiencing and creating, the book outlines the state of the field through cutting-edge research case studies. For example, how does art-music practice / thinking communicate activist activities? How do socio-economic and environmental problems affect access to heritage? How do contemporary practitioners interpret past works and what global concerns stimulate new works? In each instance, examples of cross or inter-media works are not thought of in isolation but in a global historical context that shows our cultural existence to be complex, conflicted and entwined. For the first time cross-disciplinary collaborations in ethnomusicology-anthropology, ecomusicology-ecoart-ecomuseology and digital humanities for art history, musicology and practice are prioritized in one volume.

Sarah Kraaz is Emerita Professor of Music, Ripon College, USA. She is editor of Music and War in the United States (2017).

Charlotte de Mille is Associate Lecturer at The Courtauld Institute, UK, and curates The Courtauld Gallery's music programme. She is author of Bergson in Britain: Philosophy and Modernist Art (2023), co-editor of Bergson and the Art of Immanence (2013) and editor of Music and Modernism, c. 1849-1950 (2011).