In ethnomusicology, one frequently deals with the music and dance of people who are perceived to be “different”. However, one needn’t travel to the far corners of the earth to do so—after all, Vienna itself is home to an extremely varied range of musical cultures that exist side by side.
This past June, the ethnomusicologist Ursula Hemetek became the first woman professor at an arts university to receive the Wittgenstein Award.
Joint Meeting of the ICTM Study Groups “Music and Minorities” and “Music and Gender”.
For her outstanding achievements in minority research within the context of ethnomusicology, Ursula Hemetek was recently honoured with the 2018 Wittgenstein Award.
An analysis of plena—a genre of Afro-Caribbean traditional music—and its performance in Puerto Rico.
A New Event Series of the mdw’s Department of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology (IVE).
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