Music and Motion Interweaving Artistic Practice and Theory in Dance and Beyond Stephanie Schroedter (ed.) How are music/sound and dance/movement interwoven in artistic processes? What kinds of models can be identified when studying the relations between them, and which aesthetic intentions correspond to them? Based on these questions, the contributors to this volume map a wide range of performances from …

Endorsements

Endorsements

Turning Social The Social-Transformative Potential of Music Mediation Axel Petri-Preis, Annette Ziegenmeyer (eds.)     How can diverse musical interactions be productively used to promote inter- and transcultural communication, support human thriving and flourishing, empower marginalised social groups, or make society as a whole more sustainable, just and inclusive?

Musik und Suizidalität Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven Julia Heimerdinger, Hannah Riedl, Thomas Stegemann (Hg.)     Suizidalität ist ein verbreitetes Sujet unzähliger Lieder, Opernarien und Instrumentalstücke – so etwa im berühmt-berüchtigten Suicide Song »Gloomy Sunday«. Aktuell wird in fachlichen und populärwissenschaftlichen Debatten diskutiert, inwieweit Musik Einfluss auf reale Suizidhandlungen zeitigt, sei es als Risiko- oder als protektiver Faktor. Die Beiträge des Bands, …

Xenakis – Back to the Roots Philological Approaches to Electroacoustic Music Reinhold Friedl, Thomas Grill, Nikolaus Urbanek, Michelle Ziegler (eds.)     The electroacoustic works of the Greek-French composer Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001) captivate with their radical ideas, sounds and compositional models. They were often conceived as multimedia works for specific locations and architectures. The richness of the approaches and processes …

The Social Organization of Arts A Theoretical Compendium Volker Kirchberg and Tasos Zembylas     In recent decades, social and economic changes have brought about a growing awareness of the role of art and culture in society. As a result, scholars have turned their attention to a sociological view of arts, developing hermeneutic approaches and conducting empirical research that have …