Judith Becker’s contribution highlights the timely issue of interdisciplinaryudinteraction between ethnomusicology and music psychology, with its attendantudopportunities and difficulties. My response aims to first of all place this issue in theudhistorical context of disciplinary development and differentiation. As for the present-dayudsituation, I argue that for interdisciplinary engagement to be productive, bridges need toudbe built between pockets of interest on both sides of the disciplinary divide. Theuddifficulties faced by Becker do not in my view suggest that there is no appetite on theudpsychology side of the divide for interdisciplinary exchange, although they do highlightudsome of the barriers to such communication.
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