Projects
An overview of completed projects at the MMRC
Reverse Ethnomusicology: Migrant Musicians as Researchers
Project lead: Dr. Anja Brunner (Department for Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology/MMRC, mdw), Dr. Cornelia Gruber (Phonogrammarchiv, ÖAW; payed In-Kind)
Project members: Petzi Beneš (2023–2025), Ioannis Christidis (2025), Valeska Andrea Díaz Soto (2023–2024), Lis Vovka (2024–25)
Project duration: 04/2023 to 03/2026
Funding: FWF – Austrian Science Fund, 1000-Ideas-Program, Grant-DOI 10.55776/TAI724
Ethnic and Social Minorities in China
Project realization: Kai Tang
Project start: October 2022 - September 2025
Funding: Deborah Wong Research and Publication Award der Society for Ethnomusicology, Austrian Science Fund FWF Grant-DOI 10.55776/Z352
Challenging the Theater of Memory. Yiddish Song beyond Kitsch and Stereotype
Project lead: Isabel Frey & Benjy Fox-Rosen
Funding: AR-Pilot Call 2022 of mdw, Austrian Science Fund FWF Grant-DOI 10.55776/Z352
Women Musicians from Syria: Performance, Networks, Belonging/s after Migration
Project lead: Anja Brunner
Project members: Tessa Balser-Schuhmann (2020–2024), María del Mar Ocaña Guzmán (2023–2024)
Project duration: 01/2020 to 12/2024, at MMRC since 04/2021 (previously at the University of Vienna)
Funding: The Austrian Science Fund FWF, Elise Richter Program, Grant-DOI 10.55776/V706
Music in the Experience of Forced Migration from Syria to the European Borderland
Project realization: Ioannis Christidis
Project start: March 1, 2020 to June 4, 2024
Funding: Austrian Science Fund FWF Grant-DOI 10.55776/Z352
Klingender Gemeindebau
Project lead: Ursula Hemetek
Project team: Jasemin Khaleli
Project duration: March 1, 2021 to June 31, 2022 (research phase), followed by on-site implementation phase
Funding: Austrian Science Fund FWF Grant-DOI 10.55776/Z352