Mimi Mitchell enjoys a dual career as a musicologist and a historical violinist. She was co-curator of the symposium The Historical Violin (STIMU, Utrecht Early Music Festival, 2019) and curated the conference Early Music in the 21st Century (Conservatorium van Amsterdam, 2021). She contributed a chapter to the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna's The Collection of Historic Musical Instruments: The First 100 Years (2018) and presented a series of lectures and articles for the "Revival" Utrecht Early Music Festival (2023). She is a Masters Research Coordinator and Senior Lecturer at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and works internationally as a speaker, teacher, violinist/conductor, and coach.

Foreword: Polarization, Reintegration, and Diversity
Sir Nicholas Kenyon

1. Introduction
Mimi Mitchell
Part I: Methodological Viewpoints
2. Early Music: Views from Ethnomusicology
Caroline Bithell
3. Renewing Historical Performance through an Embodiment of Historical Acting Techniques
Jed Wentz
4. Historical Interpretation Research-New Sources and Methodologies
Kai Köpp
Part II: (Non) Historical Instruments
5. Making (Faking?) Early Music
Jeremy Montagu
6. Plastic Fantastic?
Fiona Brock, Andrew Hughes, and Jeremy Uden
7. Modern Versus Historical Instruments: International Bach Competition Leipzig
Mimi Mitchell
Part III: Pedagogical Perspectives
8. Professionalizing Historical Performance: The Past and Present of Early Music Education in Am-sterdam
Kailan Rubinoff
9. "HIP for All" or Specialized Training: Diverse Missions for Early Music in Higher Education
Kelly Landerkin and Claire Michon
10. Nows, Thens, and Truths: Attending to the Present in Performing the Past
Jonathan Impett
11. Towards a More Inclusive Early Music
Deanna Pellerano
Part IV: Transformative Technologies
12. Early Music and the Paradox of Technology
Alon Schab
13. "Nutrition in an Age of Diet Soft Drinks": the Utopa Baroque Organ in Amsterdam
Hans Fidom
14. Developing Virtual Acoustic Systems for Use in Early Music Research
Eoin Callery and Jonathan Abel
Part V: Revisiting History
15. The New Dutch Recorder Sound of the 1960s
Robert Ehrlich
16. Early Music in the Latin Americas: An Alternative Scene
Melodie Michel
17. Remixes and Radical Revivals: Baroque Opera Production and the Opera Wars
Caitlin Vincent
Index