It’s 6:30 p.m. on a Tuesday. Students from various programmes are welcomed to the mdw’s Clara Schumann-Saal by Miriam Steinkühler-Fuchsberger, a member of the ipop – Department of Popular Music faculty. Her mission today, like on many Tuesdays past: to unleash students’ passion for singing together despite any tiredness after their day’s work at the University. mdw Magazine sat in on one of their rehearsals.
With the Department of Popular Music (ipop) celebrating 20 years of existence, we take brief look into its past and future with teachers, graduates, and students.
The theme of this multiauthor volume, which presents lectures from the 29th Annual Conference of the German Society for Popular Music Studies, hits a socio-political nerve for more reasons than just the increasingly nation-centred coronavirus mitigation strategies.
Conceiving, arranging, producing, and performing with guidance from the internationally renowned artist Steve Sidwell.
On 16 and 17 November, the Department of Popular music (ipop) celebrated 15 years of existence as part of the mdw’s bicentennial celebrations.
The leading team of ipop explains what would be missing from Austria’s musical landscape without the department.
Art and research connect at the Department of Popular Music: a survey of the research project Performing Diversity and a look back at the experimental concert Clash Concerty.
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