Eastern European Working‐class Cultures Mimicry in Contemporary Hardbass Ondřej Daniel Abstract: In this chapter, I discuss the contemporary developments of hardbass, a predominantly Eastern European electronic dance music style that emerged at the turn of the first decade of the twenty‐first century in Russia and spread to different countries of the region and beyond. Specifically, I focus on de‐politicized and commodified hardbass …
Rumya S. Putcha Abstract: This chapter exposes the role of expressive culture in the rise and spread of late twentieth‐century Hindu identity politics. The author examines how Hindu nationalism is fueled by affective logics that have crystallized around the female classical dancer and have situated her gendered and athletic body as a transnational emblem of an authentic Hindu and Indian …
Counterpublics, Citizenship, and Participatory Art Milena Dragićević Šešić and Julija Matejić Abstract: This paper explores subaltern cultural counterpublics in Serbia in the last three decades, through different forms of performative and participatory music activism: from radio activism, public noise, and performances in public spaces during the 1990s, to self‐organized choirs in the 2000s and 2010s. By referring to the concept …
Representing and Re‐presenting Musicking in Deaf Culture through Hip Hop Katelyn E. Best Abstract: Products such as headphones, music streaming platforms, and learning assessments foster a hearing-centric realization of music that places auditory senses at the forefront of musical experience. Yet within the context of Deaf culture, a linguistic minority defined by the use of sign language, music takes on …
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 and contribute to the development of a global, resource-saving open access infrastructure. Free from commercial motives, mdwPress …
Thursday, 20 January 22, from 5:30 to 7 pm Music is a resource for societal transformation processes. This book provides recent insights into how individuals and groups used and still use music to achieve social, cultural and political participation and bring about social change. The contributors present outstanding perspectives on the topic: From the promise and myth of democratization through …
M&M will launch on 6 December 2021 with an inaugural collection of articles on the topic of music and forced migration, including contributions by Toni Shapiro-Phim, Evrim Hikmet Öğüt, Marko Kölbl, and Ioannis Christidis. These articles are complemented by a set of reviews of recent publications in the field of music and minorities research. The Music and Minorities Research Center …
Participatory Approachesn Marko Kölbl and Fritz Trümpi (eds.) Ambivalences in Music and Democracy. Introductory Remarks Marko Kölbl and Fritz Trümpi Part 1: From Recorded Democracy to Digital Participation? Entrepreneurial Tapists: Underground Music Reproduction and Distribution in the U.S. and U.S.S.R., 1960s and 1970s Marsha Siefert New Model, Same Old Stories? Reproducing Narratives of Democratization in Music Streaming Debates Raphaël …
The mdwPress Coordination is glad to announce that the mdw’s open access publisher is now open for submissions. On 10 March 2021, many of the mdw’s researchers followed the invitation for an online presentation about the concept of the publisher, the background to its genesis and the services offered. Three special guests shared their excitement about the new publisher during …
