The volume presents an overview of historical musicology in the context of current debates in the arts, literature, and cultural studies. Is historical musicology, with its methods and questions, able to connect within this framework? What specific relevance does music and musicology have in relation to cultural identities? Under these guiding questions, renowned authors discuss the full spectrum of historical musicology in 25 contributions, testing theoretical, historical, sociological, aesthetic, media-theoretical, philological, and various cultural studies approaches to musical and musicological phenomena from both history and the present. An introduction to historical musicology: Music - Culture - Science: The status of musicology. What "turns" are present in musicology?.