This collection is the first-ever publication to bring together music scholars working on Baltic topics from throughout Europe, North America, and the Middle East for the purpose of exploring the impact of Nazi and Soviet occupation (1940-91) and the restoration of republican independence upon the production of musicological knowledge in and about the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.

Kevin C. Karnes is Assistant Professor of Music History at Emory University (USA). He is the author of Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of History (Oxford University Press, 2008), and co-editor of the revised and expanded edition of Brahms and His World (Princeton University Press, 2009).

Joachim Braun is Professor (Emeritus) of Music at Bar-Ilan University (Israel). He is the author of On Jewish Music (Peter Lang 2006), Music in Ancient Israel/Palestine (Walter B. Eerdmans, 2002), and Studies: Music in Latvia (Musica Baltica, 2002).

1. Introduction Kevin C. Karnes and Joachim Braun

2. Reconsidering Musicology in the Baltic States of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia: 1990-2006 Joachim Braun

3. Late- and Post-Soviet Music Scholarship and the Tenacious Ecumenicity of Christian Musics in Estonia Jeffers Engelhardt

4. Lithuanian Musicology in Historical Context: 1945 to the Present Vita Gruodyte

5. Soviet Musicology and the 'Nationalities Question': The Case of Latvia Kevin C. Karnes

6. Modernist Trends in Estonian Musicology in the 1970s-1980s and the Study of Folk Melodies Urve Lippus

7. Muzikologia/Muzikas zinatne: A Critical History of Latvian Musicology Martin Boiko

8. Exiled Modernism: Lithuanian Music through the Second World War Gražina Daunoraviciene