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The disciplines of ethnomusicology and musicology regularly employ a valuable set of intellectual tools for understanding, discussing, contextualizing, and performing music. What value do scholarly insights such as these have outside of the academy and how might they be put to work? “Applied” ethnomusicology and “public” musicology use the scholarly insights of the two fields in service of a range of practical or entrepreneurial projects and writing that addresses a broad audience. In this course, we will discuss a variety of such projects, as well as some of the ethical and practical concerns that arise when scholars engage with their publics. We will practice multiple styles of writing useful to public-facing scholarship, including grant proposals, program notes, and think pieces. Through both discussion and hands-on experience, we will explore the division between strictly academic and public-facing or applied research, questioning the utility and limits of this boundary.