If conscious and unconscious orientations are fundamental to human experience, then sounds can “simultaneously drive and be the object of orientive and disorientive processes”.

This anthology arose as a follow-up publication to a 2015 conference with which the mdw’s Department of Music Sociology celebrated 50 years of existence.

With her recent monograph on Hugo Kauder published in 2018 as part of the series exil.arte-Schriften, musicologist Karin Wagner has given the interested reading public a biography of a composer, music philosopher, and theoretician who was forced to flee National Socialist-ruled Austria.

The volume on Mozart’s "Le nozze di Figaro" at issue here attempts to take a closer look at “the event of Figaro in 1786”, from various perspectives of music-related cultural action.

Best of isaScience 2013–2016. An Interdisciplinary Collection of Essays on Music and Arts.

Soziologische, wissenstheoretische und musikwissenschaftliche Perspektiven.

Musik, Gender, Differenz. Intersektionale Perspektiven auf musikkulturelle Felder und Aktivitäten