2016 marks the10th anniversary of the founding of the ICTM Musics of East Asia Study Group, which took place in August 2006 in Ilan, Taiwan. Coming full circle to Taiwan again, this meeting provides a forum to look back on 10 years of the MEA Study Group’s development from a fledgling research group to an important and diverse community that is itself disciplining music research in different ways, and through different voices. As such, the overlying theme of East Asian Ethnomusicologies – understood in the plural – seeks to be as inclusive as possible, while encouraging reflexivity of approach and understanding. A revisit of Witzleben 1997’s article Whose Ethnomusicology? Western Ethnomusicology and the Study of Asian Music provides a useful starting point for re-interrogating issues that continue to concern East Asian musical academia, interpreted today not simply against the proverbial and amorphous ‘Western’ musical academia in a stereotypical binary reading, but in intersection with divergent trends in American, Anglo, European, and scholarship in the global south – the final category in itself being a problematic label. But fault lines continue to be drawn intra-discipline, even as new bridges span the boundaries of different kinds of academic intersectionality.