Early music and web 2.0 (with links to full text)

My short opinion piece in the anniversary issue of Early Music has just been published.

The journal Early Music commissioned a number of short opinion pieces for their anniversary issue, which is just out. Mine is on doing early music in the age of social media. OK, so it’s in part a plug for my own blog, but, hey! you’re here so you don’t need it!. And I do mention some other people, so here are the links to the full text, courtesy of OUP journals.

Elizabeth Eva Leach, ‘Early music and Web 2.0′, Early Music 2013 41: 134-135.

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