Our research group profiles itself on the critical analysis of music and its societal functions in three key domains: history, politics, and media. Our work intersects these domains, for we recognize that the history of music and its mediation cannot be separated from the political forces and technological developments that have shaped human expression across time. We recognize that our object of study—music—rests on a destabilized ontological foundation: as score, as audiovisual media, as performance or creative practice, as a means of communication, as both tangible and intangible heritage. Our aim is to develop and execute analytical and critical approaches to music that reveal this multivalent nature, unravelling the knots of mediation and power that have always shaped music from creation to reception. Our group mobilizes expertise in the entanglements of music with international relations, security studies, critical dis/ability studies, intermediality, and the role of music in identity formation across the breadth and formats of the contemporary media landscape. We position ourselves as a one-stop shop for knowledge not just regarding how humans have made and experienced music across the longue durée, but why.