Transkulturalität, Migrations- und Fluchtforschung
by Marko Kölbl
The department’s focus on music and minorities, established in the 1990ies, evolved into ist logical extension in research on migrant groups in projects like Music of Bosnians in Vienna, Turkish Music in Vienna or Immigrant Music Culturues in Vienna. This was followed by research projects on migrant music industries as well as bimusicality (Bimusikalität 1, 2010, Bimusikalität 2, 2016-2017 - both in German).
This research also resulted in publications by the department, for example, Bosnische Musik in Österreich (Hemetek, Bajrektarević 2000, eng.: Bosnian Music in Austria), or Music from Turkey in the Diaspora (Hemetek, Sağlam 2008). After two decades of migration research, the meaning of music and dance in the context of migration, relocation and diasporic life led to a broader approach framed with the term transculturality. Since 2014, transkulturalitaet_mdw constitutes a research and teaching focus within our university (see publication Transkulturelle Erkundungen, Hemetek, Hindler, Huber, Kaufmann, Malmberg, Sağlam 2019, eng.: Transcultural Explorations). The lecture series transculturality was installed in 2014 and is carried out in the form of scholarly symposia since 2019. Within the department, transculturality forms a research approach in research on migration, forced migration and refugees. This ethnomusicological migration and refugee research, carried out in neat cooperation with the MMRC, is oriented towards theoretical impulses of critical migration and border regimes studies as well as refugees and forced migration studies. It aims at establishing interdisciplinary links and at positioning ethnomusicological research within the dicourses of migration studies.
>> Immigrant Music Cultures in Vienna
>> Bosnische Musik in Österreich