Philosophical Concepts of Love as a Compass for Music Mediation Practice Daniela Bartels Introduction In music mediation projects that focus on the social potential of music‑making, music is often used as an aid to create interpersonal encounters and to connect people – especially people whose paths would not cross for more than a few seconds in everyday life. As …
An Approach via Convention Theory Anke Schad-Spindler Introduction The question of social change processes – or changes towards the social, which this volume raises, is closely linked to questions about the intentions and goals of the changes. How should music organisations change to become more social? Which ideas of an (improved) social reality underlie these intentions? And what could …
Daniela Bartels worked as a school teacher at a comprehensive school in Berlin where she focused on group music-making with adolescents. In her doctoral thesis, she tackled the philosophical question of how musical praxis (in the Aristotelian sense) can empower human beings to achieve a ‘good life’ for themselves and help others do the same. Parallel to that, she founded …
The Open Access University Press of the mdw mdwPress is the open access academic publisher of the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. With this press, the mdw aims to increase the visibility of its research in all its diversity. Free from commercial motives, mdwPress makes research results freely accessible and reusable for the interested public. The …
