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IMS – DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC SOCIOLOGY MDW – UNIVERSITY OF MUSIC AND PERFORMING ARTS VIENNA
Dear colleagues and friends,
NEWS | OCTOBER 2021
OVERVIEW EVENTS
EVENTS
PANEL DISCUSSION POPULAR MUSIC, POPULISM IN EUROPE, AND THE POLITICS OF CRITIQUE 28 October 2021 | 6pm Joseph Haydn-Saal, mdw This panel discussion is part of the mdw-event series POPULISMUS KRITISIEREN and takes place in hybrid format. Speakers: Emília Barna and Ágnes Patakfalvi-Czirják (Budapest University of Technology and Economics), André Doehring and Kai Ginkel (University of Music and Performing Arts Graz), and Mario Dunkel (Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg) Music: Constantin Luger Moderation and organisation: Sarah Chaker (Department of Music Sociology, mdw) and Ralf von Appen (Department of Popular Music, mdw) Further information: Click here Registration is mandatory! Please write an email to Mona Torinek: torinek@mdw.ac.at (Please indicate whether you would like to participate in the event live or via Zoom.)
WORKSHOP MUSIK UND POPULISMUS with Mario Dunkel and Reinhard Kopanski 29 October 2021 | 10am – 2pm spiel|mach|t|raum, mdw This workshop will be held in German language. Limited number of participants. Registration is mandatory! Please write an email to Sarah Chaker: chaker-s@mdw.ac.at
BOOK PRESENTATION Andy Battentier: A SOCIOLOGY OF SOUND TECHNICIANS 30 November 2021 | 6pm Department of Music Sociology (Room AWU0205), mdw Further information: Click here Registration is mandatory! Please write an email to Irene Poandl: musiksoziologie@mdw.ac.at
CONFERENCE REVIEW SPACES OF MUSICAL CULTURES: FROM BEDROOMS TO CITIES The international conference SPACES OF MUSICAL CULTURES: FROM BEDROOMS TO CITIES, organised by Andrea Glauser (Department of Cultural Management and Gender Studies, mdw) and Rosa Reitsamer (Department of Music Sociology, mdw), took place at the mdw and online from 19 to 20 March 2021. Review by Mona Torinek: Click here
PUBLICATIONS
Battentier, Andy (2021): A Sociology of Sound Technicians. Making the Show Go on. Wiesbaden: Springer (new book publication in the lecture series MUSIK UND GESELLSCHAFT) If art, and especially music, has been framed in cultural sociology as a collective production relying on a variety of actors, technicians have been mostly framed as “support personnel” marginally impacting the meaning of a cultural production. This book analyses sound technicians as technical intermediaries. They are autonomous actors of cultural production and contribute in various ways to the meaning of live or recorded music performances, framed as a form of interaction rituals. From this analysis, it is argued that artists should not be considered at the center of art worlds and proposes a model including various types of actors in different roles, all necessary to produce a cultural object.
Huber, Annegret / Ingrisch, Doris / Kaufmann, Therese/ Kretz, Johannes / Schröder, Gesine / Zembylas, Tasos (eds.) (2021): Knowing in Performance. Artistic Research in Music and Performing Arts. Bielefeld: Transcript Knowing in Performing describes dynamic processes of artistic knowledge production in music and the performing arts. Knowing refers to how processual, embodied and tacit knowledge can be developed from performative practices in music, dance, theatre, and film. By exploring the field of artistic research as a space for participatory and experimental artistic practices, this anthology points the way forward for researchers, artists and decision-makers inside and outside arts universities.
Zembylas, Tasos / Niederauer, Martin (2021): Composing Processes and Artistic Agency: Tacit Knowledge in Composing. London, New York: Routledge This monograph resulted from a two-year research project analysing composing processes in actu in art music and shedding new light on the material conditions and epistemic dynamics of creative work in general. The leading questions are concerning the changing role of various compositional activities such as listening, researching, imagining, trying out, reflecting, noting, correcting along the working process, and their intrinsic interrelations. A particular focus is set on the complex synergy of various, propositional and tacit forms of knowledge, material and symbolic artefacts, resources and collaborative arrangements with others. Consequently, the book chapters develop an understanding of artistic agency and mastery as effects of shared practices and social participation. The findings will be interesting for sociologists, musicologists as well as for other scholars and artists interested in the epistemics of artistic practices.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
QUALITY OF ARTS (QUART) In the course of discussions about rankings of universities, quality management of artistic teaching and learning as well as the employability of musicians, research on the acquisition of artistic knowledge, the valuation of artistic performance, and the career trajectories of musicians has gained importance. These topics are addressed by the ongoing empirical studies QUALITY OF ARTS (QUART). QUALITY OF ARTS II (QUART II) explores the valuation practices of professors at music universities and conservatoires in the German-speaking field of classical music. This study is based on 39 in-depth interviews with professors who teach an instrument, voice or conducting at an elite state-funded higher music education institution in Austria or Germany. QUALITY OF ARTS III (QUART III) examines the transition from study to work and the career trajectories of a younger generation of classically trained musicians in the context of neoliberalism. QUART III is based on 41 in-depth interviews with students and musicians who graduated in the last 13 years from a music university or conservatoire. Project lead: Rosa Reitsamer Researcher: Rainer Prokop Duration: QUART II since 2015; QUART III since 2016 Journalistic articles in university magazines: Prokop, Rainer / Reitsamer, Rosa (2021): Der Habitus steht auf dem Prüfstand, in: Plateau – Magazin der Hochschule für Musik Trossingen, Winter 2020/21, p. 10-12 Online: Click here Reitsamer, Rosa / Prokop, Rainer (2017): Klassische MusikerInnen als professionelle EmotionsmanagerInnen / Classical Musicians as Professional Emotion Managers, in: mdw-Magazin, Mai/Juni 2017, p. 61-63 Online: Click here
MUDIL – MUSICAL DISTANCE LEARNING: EXPERIENCES, EFFECTS, PERSPECTIVES This cooperative study is to spotlight the Covid-19 influenced teaching situation of music school teachers and secondary schools’ music educators. In this cooperative project with the Department of Music Education Research, Music Didactics and Elementary Music Education at the mdw, in a first workstep experiences with musical distance learning throughout Austria and South Tyrol have been collected through an extended online survey. Building on this, framework conditions and methodological approaches in terms of possible further developments of the pedagogical and didactic concepts of musical learning are to be analysed. Cooperation partners: Michael Huber (Department of Music Sociology, mdw), Wilfried Aigner and Michaela Hahn (Department of Music Education Research, Music Didactics and Elementary Music Education, mdw) Duration: June 2020 – (at least) February 2021 Selected results of workstep 1 (online survey): Click here
MUSIC SOCIOLOGY AS COLLECTIVE ACTION: This project examines the academic collaboration of Herta and Kurt Blaukopf, with a specific focus on Herta Blaukopf’s partly unclear and veiled achievements for music sociology. Drawing upon Howard Becker’s notion of “art worlds”, the project also considers the gender-specific dimensions of Herta and Kurt’s collaborations, thus aiming to contribute to the ongoing discussion about music sociology as “collective action”. Project lead: Sarah Chaker and Rosa Reitsamer Researcher: Raphaela Viehböck Duration: 2021 – 2022 Funding: Gender|Queer|Diversity-Call_mdw 2020 Further information: Click here
HUMANS AND RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS – TOWARDS A MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING The Department of Music Sociology is involved in an interdisciplinary research project, funded by the FWF, which started on 1 September 2021. After the digital mediamorphosis, those interested in music are confronted with an oversupply of listening options on the Internet. Recommender systems try to remedy this, and almost always they work via “collaborative filtering”, i.e. with reference to “similar” content or recipients who act “similarly”. Additionally, intransparent economic interests of the powerful music industry influence the song selection for streaming playlists. Here as there, the situational peculiarities of individual music wishes are not taken into account. (Depending on the place, time, mood, etc., a recipient wants to listen to different music.) In the course of the research project, we will try to find out more about people's music selection behaviour and the corresponding influencing factors. For this purpose, an adaptive smartphone app will be used, which is intended to lead to a continuously better understanding between the recommender system and the recipient through exchange of information. Project lead: Eva Zangerle (University of Innsbruck) Cooperation partners: Michael Huber (Department of Music Sociology, mdw), Peter Knees (Vienna University of Technology), Markus Schedl (Johann Kepler University Linz) and Marcel Zentner (University of Innsbruck) Duration: September 2021 – August 2024 Funding: FWF Project website: Click here
OTHER
IN COMMEMORATION OF ELENA OSTLEITNER (15 JUNE 1947 – 8 MAY 2021) Elena Ostleitner was in many ways an outstanding personality. She was one of the first music sociologists at the mdw and focused on the interdependence between music, society and gender in research and teaching as early as the 1970s. Against all odds and with the support of Kurt Blaukopf, her commitment served as a basis for the diverse gender and diversity policy work that exists at the mdw today. We thank Elena for her legacy and her tireless commitment to the Department. Read more about Elena Ostleitner: Click here
STAFF NEWS
Katharina Alexi has been appointed as new lecturer. Ondřej Daniel is visiting scholar from October 2021 until March 2022. Michael Huber has been appointed full professor in October 2021. Raphaela Viehböck is researcher for the project “Music Sociology As Collective Action: Die Wissenschaftliche Partner*Innenschaft von Herta und Kurt Blaukopf”. |
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