Epilogue
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Dirk van Laak
Abstract
This epilogue underscores the insights to be gained from analyzing music as a “globalized infrastructure,” revealing its dual role in enabling cultural connections and reinforcing societal hierarchies. Relating music to socio-technological systems, it highlights how material and immaterial infrastructures facilitate the production, dissemination, and collective experience of music across global contexts. This perspective deepens our understanding of music’s role in shaping global interactions and its potential as a shared cultural resource in an interconnected world.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Editors' Forum: Infrastructures of Musical Globalization, 1850–2000; Guest Editors: Friedemann Pestel and Martin Rempe
- Infrastructures of Musical Globalization, 1850–2000: Introduction
- “This is How the Students Graduate!”: Cuban Conservatories as Infrastructures of Musical Globalization
- Copyright Societies and Musicians in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Enduring Infrastructures in Times of Decolonization?
- Between Winning and Losing the Cultural Cold War – The Soviet Ministry of Culture and Musical Infrastructures During the Cold War
- “He is Not an Artist But a Trust”: Herbert von Karajan’s Global Career and the (A)political Economy of Classical Music
- Minor Infrastructures: Genre and Petroleum Politics in the Music of Grace Chang and Fela Kuti
- Epilogue
- Review Essay
- Pippa Biddle: Ours to Explore: Privilege, Power, and the Paradox of Voluntourism; Keri Vacanti Brondo: Voluntourism and Multispecies Collaboration: Life, Death, and Conservation in the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef; Allison Schnable: Amateurs Without Borders: The Aspirations and Limits of Global Compassion
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Editors' Forum: Infrastructures of Musical Globalization, 1850–2000; Guest Editors: Friedemann Pestel and Martin Rempe
- Infrastructures of Musical Globalization, 1850–2000: Introduction
- “This is How the Students Graduate!”: Cuban Conservatories as Infrastructures of Musical Globalization
- Copyright Societies and Musicians in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Enduring Infrastructures in Times of Decolonization?
- Between Winning and Losing the Cultural Cold War – The Soviet Ministry of Culture and Musical Infrastructures During the Cold War
- “He is Not an Artist But a Trust”: Herbert von Karajan’s Global Career and the (A)political Economy of Classical Music
- Minor Infrastructures: Genre and Petroleum Politics in the Music of Grace Chang and Fela Kuti
- Epilogue
- Review Essay
- Pippa Biddle: Ours to Explore: Privilege, Power, and the Paradox of Voluntourism; Keri Vacanti Brondo: Voluntourism and Multispecies Collaboration: Life, Death, and Conservation in the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef; Allison Schnable: Amateurs Without Borders: The Aspirations and Limits of Global Compassion
