The internet age has brought forward a series of new approaches to the research of music and dance, and new patterns of scholarship have been developed, both within different disciplines and across the globe. Scholars from five global research associations (ICTM, SEM, IMS, IAML, IASPM) will meet to present and discuss the new methodologies now emerging, looking both for commonalities and distinctive new departures. Inter-, multi-, trans- and cross-disciplinary approaches will be welcome, including those that reach out beyond the specifically academic domain toward new social and economic usages. We ask how these new possibilities provide a means to generate respect for and engagement within traditional, historical or popular forms of music and dance, as well as allowing our imagination to reach knowledgeably across conventional geographical, social and historical boundaries. The Forum will interleave discipline-specific and interdisciplinary sessions.