Monash University plans to cut its musicology subjects. Why does this matter?
- Written by Peter Tregear, Principal Fellow, University of Melbourne

There’s a telling scene in Peter Bogdanovich’s 1972 screwball comedy What’s Up, Doc? in which a judge asks an academic to tell the court what kind of doctor he is. When he responds “music”, the judge then demands to know whether he can “fix a hi-fi”? The answer is, unsurprisingly, “No”.
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