Projects
History of Ethnomusicological Minority Research at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
Project lead: Ursula Hemetek, Malik Sharif
Project team: Benjy Fox-Rosen
Project duration: 2024-2026
Funding: Austrian Science Fund FWF Grant-DOI 10.55776/Z352
Between Research and Activism: Futures of Music and Minority Studies
Project lead: Ursula Hemetek, Malik Sharif
Project team: Peter Lell, Samo Zeichen, Claudia Strate (until March 2025)
Project duration: 2024-2026
Funding: Austrian Science Fund FWF Grant-DOI 10.55776/Z352
"We sing to live": The songs of a minority fishing community
Project lead: Amos Darkwa Asare
Project duration: 2024-2027
Funding: Austrian Science Fund FWF Grant DOI 10.55776/ESP696
Sounds of Trauma: Naga Song Responses to Political Conflict
Project lead: Christian Friedrich Poske
Project duration: 2024-2027
Funding: Austrian Science Fund FWF Grant DOI 10.55776/ESP696
Ružake gila – Ružas Lieder – Ruža’s songs
Project lead: Ursula Hemetek
Project team: Eva Leick, Malik Sharif
Project duration: 2023-2025
Funding: Austrian Science Fund FWF Grant-DOI 10.55776/Z352
Engineering the Minorities: Folk Music, Ethnic Traditions, and the Chinese Narrative in the 21st Century
Project realization: Kai Tang
Project start: October 2022
Funding: Deborah Wong Research and Publication Award der Society for Ethnomusicology, Austrian Science Fund FWF Grant-DOI 10.55776/Z352
Reverse Ethnomusicology: Migrant Musicians as Researchers
Principal investigators: Dr. Anja Brunner (Department for Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology, mdw), Dr. Cornelia Gruber (Phonogrammarchiv, ÖAW)
Researchers: Petzi Beneš, Ioannis Christidis
Former researchers: Valeska Andrea Díaz Soto (2023–2024), Lis Vovka (2024–25)
Project duration: 03/2023–09/2025
Funding: Austrian Science Fund FWF, 1000-Ideas-Program, Grant-DOI 10.55776/TAI724
Completed projects:
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 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