Building Sustainable Global Collaborative Networks: Recommendations from Music Studies and the Social Sciences

Abstract

The aim of this chapter is to provide concrete recommendations for moving beyond the traditional overreliance on Western music and musicians and toward sustained collaborations that include members of diverse societies throughout the world as equal partners in shared research practices and as part of an ecology of knowledge (de Sousa Santos, 2007; Sardo, 2017; Schippers & Grant, 2016). These recommendations are not intended to be onerous, prescriptive rules but rather suggestions to encourage progress and create excitement about future opportunities. Our goal is not to discourage crosscultural research that doesn’t follow these recommendations but rather to encourage more research and provide practical guidance to help realize this goal.