Reading Group Goals
■ To get together with peers to share ideas and remain connected to a community of scholarly practice.
■ To read and learn from sources outside of our own specialized areas.
■ To read across musical genres, historical periods, disciplines, and methods.
■ To improve analytical and critical reading skills.
■ For students and earlier career scholars: to build confidence, learn from others, and gain experience in a low-pressure, welcoming setting.
■ For mid-later career scholars and retired scholars: to stay in dialogue, exchange ideas with, and gain inspiration from, students and colleagues.
■ For students and scholars from non-English speaking backgrounds: a low-pressure and welcoming setting to practice your spoken communication of scholarly ideas.
■ For those who tend to work alone such as PhDs and postdocs: to anchor your month in a regular meetup and maintain connection with a scholarly community.
■ For those with teaching-heavy workloads: to provide motivation to continue reading when there is little time or impetus to do so otherwise.
■ For those who research music topics but do not belong to an easily defined discipline: to have a group of peers to share work and ideas with and be part of a scholarly community.