The International Musicological Society (IMS) is the oldest international association of musicologists active during 90 years since its foundation in Basel in 1927.<br>
The simplistic definition of historical musicology as the study of the written tradition of Western art music has shaped, for many observers, a distorted image of the IMS as a “European” society. This was not the vision of the founders. And it is not the present situation of IMS.<br>
The exciting story told in this book compiled by 21 collaborators reconstructs the role of the protagonists of the IMS to the present days.<br>