1 Shanti Suki Osman Introduction The symposium Diskriminierungskritische Perspektiven in die Curricula an der Schnittstelle von Bildung und Kunst! [Discrimination Critical Perspectives on the Curricula at the Interface of Education and Art!] was hosted and initiated by Carmen Mörsch at the Schauspielhaus Dortmund in June 2023 and attended by music and art educators and mediators, as well as students, …
Sabine Reiter Constanze Wimmer initiated Austria’s first university music mediation programme, Musikvermittlung – Musik im Kontext [Music Mediation – Music in Context], at the Anton Bruckner Private University in 2009: At the time, university programmes and the Netzwerk Junge Ohren [Network Young Ears] had already existed in Germany for ten years. Around the same time, a sort of cultural …
How to Get the Evaluation of Music Mediation Activities out of its Procrustean Bed? Irina Kirchberg In Quebec and France, the implementation of music mediation activities depends on subsidies offered by arts councils, ministries of culture or social innovation, or donations from patrons. Evaluative practices have been appearing in the cultural sector since the 80s and 90s, with the …
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 …
Interweaving Artistic Practice and Theory in Dance and Beyond Stephanie Schroedter (ed.) Preface Stephanie Schroedter Introduction: Music for/into/as Motion – and Vice Versa. Exploring the Field in Artistic Practice and Theory Stephanie Schroedter Case Studies from the Historical Avantgarde to Contemporary Practices Music, Dance, and Agency in Early French Comic Film Sophie Benn Forced Freedom. Choreography and Music in …
Musik und Suizidalität: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven Julia Heimerdinger, Hannah Riedl, Thomas Stegemann (Hg.) September 20, 2025, 11:45 a.m. Joseph Haydn-Saal Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Wien Suicidal tendencies are a common theme in countless songs, opera arias, and instrumental pieces—such as in the infamous suicide song “Gloomy Sunday.” Current academic and popular science debates are discussing the extent to which music influences actual …
