Chair for Popular Music History & Theory

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Adresse: Humboldt-University of Berlin Department of Musicology Chair for Popular Music History & Theory Am Kupfergraben 5 10099 Berlin, Germany Email:

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born in 1961 in Halle/Saale. 1980-1986 study of Musicology, as well as Vietnamese studies at Charles University Prague. 1985-1991 scientific assistant at the Humboldt-University Berlin (lectures continuing until 1994). Dr. phil. in Musicology at Humboldt University Berlin. In 1992 Director of the South East Asian Department of the German East Asia Institute Berlin. 996/97 lectures at the universities in Rostock, Berlin and Vienna. 1997 Habilitation in Ethnomusicology / Comparative Musicology at the University Vienna. 1998/99 Project manager of the German Vietnamese co-oparation: Complete audio recordings of the South Vietnamese "Music of the Talented" in Ho Chi Minh City. 1999-2001 scientific project manager at the national Library of laos in Vientiane, lectures at the Dongdok University Vientiane. 2001-2002, as well as 2005 guest lectures at the University of Applied Sciences Oldenburg/Ostfriesland/Wilhelmshaven, and at the University Vienna. 2003-2005 temporarily professorship in Musicology (C3) at the University Paderborn / Music Academy Detmold. 2003-2008 temporarily professorship in Musicology (W2) at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt a.M. 2006/07 also temporarily professorship at the University Vienna.

Research Interest:

Aspects in sociology und social psychology::
• Class-race-gender studies in musicology
• Age-settings and the development of the music market in European and Asian industrial centres
• Popular music & media
• Multi ethnic society and urban developments
• Transcultural education, musical perception of "the others"
• Global politisation of culture
• Problems of historism and authenticism

Regional Research:
• Musical cultures in East and South East Asia (China, Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Sri Lanka)
• East and South West Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Namibia)
• Europe (Madeira-Archipelago, Portugal, Czech, Slovakia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Sardinia)

Archiving and documentation:
• Audio visual engineering (analogue/digital)
• Technical und descriptive standards
• Field research manual
• Effectiveness of scientific usage
• Professional collection management
• Media presentation
• Development of working material for undergraduate and graduate studies (E-learning)

Detailed working with musical material:
• Differentiation of soundscapes
• Descriptions of cultural concepts of sound and motion and their development
• Traditional and modern music notation and other technologies concerning musical memory
• Software based analysis of sound structures and their development
• Language - intonation - text
• Sampling and re-sampling of individual and local sound references

Publications

• Turning Perspectives on South East Asian Music Practices. Edited by Zahid Emby.Second Edition. BoD Norderstedt 2009. (ISBN 978-967-5026-82-9), 284 p.
• Re-Designing the Role of Phalak and Phalam in Modern Lao Ramayana. In: Wacana Seni, Journal of Arts Discourse, Vol. 6., ed. by Tan Sooi Beng, USM, Penang. Printing in process.
• Getanzter Krieg nach einer Thüringer Volksweise: Die Kadazandusun von Telupid (Malaysia) im Jahre 2007. Berichte aus dem ICTM-Nationalkomitee Deutschland, Bd. XVIII, ed. by Marianne Bröcker, Bamberg: Universitätsbibliothek.
• Musik Welt Bilder 1. Aachen, Shaker Media. 160 S.
• Musikpraktische Rollenzuweisungen in mesopotamischen Kultdarstellungen. Berichte aus dem ICTM-Nationalkomitee Deutschland, Bd. XVI/XVII, ed. by Marianne Bröcker, Bamberg: Universitätsbibliothek.
• Turning Perspectives on South East Asian Music Practices. Edited by Zahid Emby. Penerbit Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang 2008. ISBN 978-967-5026-82-9, 303 p.
• Renovation versus Formalization in zapin Music? Some remarks on the recent meaning of maqam in the Malay World. In: Muqam in Xinjiang (China) and Outside, History and Present. Proceedings of the 6th International Meeting of the Study Group "maqam" of the ICTM, Urumqi-Xinjiang/China, September 25-30 2006. Ed. By Jürgen Elsner and Gisa Jähnichen. Berlin, trafo 2008: 189-210.
• Lies in Music - A Case Study of Qualitative Research in Ethnomusicology. In: Observing - Analysing - Contextualising MUSIC / Journal for Music Research @ UPM, No.1. Edited by Gisa Jähnichen & Chan Cheong Jan. Penerbit Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang 2008: 1-30.
• Lauten in regionalen Kulturbildern des Orients: Barbat, Gambus, Ud und Pipa. Musik im Orient. Schriften zur Musikwissenschaft. Ed. by Boeschoten, Hendrik und Wiesend, Reinhard. Mainz: Are Musik Verlag 2008: 49-83.
• Copper bowl drumming patterns introducing Awang Batil performances. Seminar & Videoconference of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Department of Musicology. Ed. by Oskar Elschek and Margita Matuskova.
• Flötenmusik im interkontinentalen Kulturtransfer zwischen 1650 und 1850, Bericht zur 34. wissenschaftlichen Arbeitstagung, Bd. 73, Kloster Michaelstein, Institut für Musik und Aufführungspraxis.
• Local Typology and Individuality of Hmong Song Melodies, in: Guandu Music Journal 4, edited by Schu Chi Lee, College of Music, Taipei National University of the Arts, June 2006: 161-212; ISSN 1814-1889
• Renovation versus Formalization in zapin Music? Some remarks on the recent meaning of maqam in the Malay World, Report of the Sixth Study Group Meeting on maqam, Urumqi / Xinjiang.
• Cultural diversity and preservation strategies within modern Vietnamese society: Can we save the hat a dao? In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Ca tru singing of the Viet People, Institute for Musicology, Hanoi.
• Sardinian air in Lao pipes, in: Report on the Study Group Meeting "Folk Musical Instruments" in Vilnius /Latvia, April 2006, in: Tautosakos Darbai XXXII, ed. by Ruta Zarskiene, The Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, Vilnius 2006: 77-86; ISSN 1392-2831
• Accessing People through Accessibility of AV Documents, IASA Journal December 2006: 42-50, ed. by Ilse Assmann, ISSN 1021-562X
• Feldforschung in Theorie und Praxis: Das Archiv für Traditionelle Musik in Laos. In: Um - Feld - Forschung. Erfahrungen, Erlebnisse, Ergebnisse, ed. by Julia Ahamer and Gerda Lechleitner, Verlag der Österreichischen Akakdemie der Wissenschaften, Wien 2007: 315-331
• Child Musicians in Class - Race - Gender Conflicts. In: The Human World and Musical Diversity. Ed. by Rosemary Statelova, Angela Rodel, Lozanka Peycheva, Ivanka Vlaeva and Ventislav Dimov. Report of the Fourth Meeting of the Study Group "Music and Minorities", Varna / Bulgaria. Sofia, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Art Studies. 328-334/405-406.
• Eine Geschichte von Schall und Rauch - Klangliches Selbstverständnis in der "Musik der Talentierten", Festschrift zum 70. Geburtstag von Marianne Bröcker, ed. by Heidi Christ, Veröffentlichungsreihe der Forschungststelle für fränkische Volksmusik der Bezirke Mittel-, Ober- und Unterfranken, Bd. 62, Uffenheim 2006: 117-135; ISBN 3-925170-29-4
• Truyen thong hat thi va triet hoc thong tin hien nay tai Viet Nam [Tradition of musical competitions and present media philosophy in Vietnam]. In: Khong gian van hoa quan ho Bac Ninh. Hanoi: Institute for Information and Culture / Cultural Office of Bac Ninh, 2006: 189-203.
• Teaching future specialists on Popular Music & Media in AV-Archiving: Report on an experiment at the University of Paderborn, IASA-Journal December 2005: 66-72, ISSN 1021-562X
• Klang - Körper - Instrument: Von Beatboxern und Luftgitarristen, in: Berichte aus dem ICTM-Nationalkomitee Deutschland, Bd. XIV/XV, ed. by Marianne Bröcker, Bamberg: Universitätsbibliothek: 71-113, ISSN 0943-4224
• Popularmusik und die Kategorie Gender in der universitären Ausbildung von Musik- und Medienwissenschaftlern, in: Musik mit Methode - Neue kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven. ed. by Monika Woitas und Corinna Herr, Böhlau-Verlag, Köln / Weimar / Wien 2006:127-138; ISBN 978-3-412-00106-3/ISBN-10 3-412-00106-6
• Das Bengbong-Spiel der Brau in Laos: Soziale Ideen in instrumental-musikalischer Praxis, in: Berichte aus dem ICTM-Nationalkomitee Deutschland, Bd. XIV/XV, ed. by Marianne Bröcker, Bamberg: Universitätsbibliothek: 13-31; ISSN 0943-4224
• Longing for the distance and confrontation with the distance: Musical dreams in the passed German Democratic Republic, in: Panel-discussion on "Class-Race-Gender-issues and Music in Cold War", 38th World Conference of the ICTM, Sheffield, UK, 8-13 August, 2005,
• Der Gesang der Schönen, in: Dokumente zur Ringvorlesung "Kulturdiskurse in Afrika und Asien", Universität Hamburg, printing in process (28 p.)
• Ethno and/or Musicology? New Ways in Musical Education, Proceedings of DOBES Summer School, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a. M. (16 p.)
• Pray woman and their musical duties, in: Shared Musics and Minority Identities -Papers from the third meeting of the äMusic and Minoritiesä Study Group of the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM), ed. by Naila Ceribasic and Erica Haskell, Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb: 93-107; ISBN 953-6020-32-7
• Musikinstrumente in aussereuropäischen Kulturen, in: Handbuch der Musikinstrumentenkunde, 9. überarb. Auflage, Kassel: Gustav Bosse Verlag, 351-404; ISBN 3-7649-203-3
• "Die Pipa und der Ud" - Genderforschung und ethnologische Kompetenz in der Musikwissenschaft; in: Projektedition zu "Dimensionen von Klasse, Rasse und Geschlecht in musikalischer Tradition und Gegenwart" (22 p.)
• Schriftliche und ikonografische Hinweise zu musizierenden Frauen in Mesopotamien, in: Projektedition zu "Dimensionen von Klasse, Rasse und Geschlecht in musikalischer Tradition und Gegenwart" (28 p.)
• Who are we? Cross-sectional preservation of musical traditions of ethnic minorities in its gender dimension, in: Report of the International Symposium on Preservation of the Arts Heritage of Chinese Ethnic Groups & Development of Contemporary Arts, Beijing: Chinese Academy of Arts, 85/230
• Researching musical systems: New approaches in preserving musical identities in South East Asia, in: Preservation of Traditional Music, Report of the Asia-Europe Training Programme, Beijing: Chinese Academy of Arts/ Asia-Europe Foundation/ Centre of Ethnic and Folk Literature and Arts Development, 85-94; CEPS 146823
• Cuoc thu nghiem ve Hat a dao [Versuch über das Hat-a-dao, orig. vietnamesisch, Wiederauflage der gleichnamigen Monographie], in: Ca tru nhin tu nhieu phia, ed. by Nguyen Duc Mau, Hanoi: Nha xuat ban van hoa - thong tin: 346-388; 622-XB-QLXB/01-VHTT (VN)
• Preservation of Traditional South Vietnamese Music - Report of a Vietnamese-German Co-operation, in: Preservation of Traditional Music, Report of the Asia-Europe Training Programme, Beijing: Chinese Academy of Arts/ Asia-Europe Foundation/ Centre of Ethnic and Folk Literature and Arts Development, 131-138
• Denkwürdige Unterhaltung mit einem blinden Musiker, in: Berichte aus dem ICTM-Nationalkomitee Deutschland, Bd. XIII, ed. by Marianne Bröcker, Bamberg: Universitätsbibliothek, S. 25-33; ISSN 0943-4224
• Wild Africa: Understanding and Presentation of Maasai Musical Culture, in: Manifold Identities: Studies on Music and Minorities, ed. by Anna Czekanowska, Ursula Hemetek, Gerda Lechleitner, Inna Naroditskaya, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 209-220; ISBN 1-904303-37-4
• Once to Hawaii and back: the rajao on Porto Santo, in: Studia instrumentorum musicae popularis, Bd. XV, Svenskt visarkiv 21, The Centre for Swedish Folk Music and Jazz Research, Stockholm, 47-54; ISBN 91 85374 39 3
• Männer weinen nicht, Männer sind nur komisch... - Wiegenlieder und die Vorurteile der weiblichen Zivilisation, in: Berichte aus dem ICTM-Nationalkomitee Deutschland, Bd. XII, ed. by Marianne Bröcker, Bamberg: Universitätsbibliothek, 137-148; ISSN 0943-4224
• The Archives of Traditional Music in Laos, in: Conference on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv, ed. by Gabriele Berlin und Artur Simon, Ethnologisches Museum Berlin, SMPK, 330-340; ISBN 3-86135-681-3
• How were we collecting music - Field report, in: SEAPAVAA-Newsletter 2002, ed. by Belina Capul, Manila: Motion pictures division at the Philippine Information Agency (PIA), Online-Edition
• Collecting principles and their obstacles - or: How to collect nothing, in: IASA Journal, Nr. 18 (2001), December, 15-22; ISSN 1021-562X
• Mundorgel-Akrobatik der Hmong in Xiengkhuang und Huaphan, Berichte aus dem ICTM-Nationalkomitee Deutschland, Bd. XI, ed. by Marianne Bröcker, Bamberg: Universitätsbibliothek, 75-89; ISSN 0943-4224
• Introduction - Collections - Analytic Observation - Internal Systematization of Traditional Music Practices in Laos, in: Research Report: Archives of Traditional Music in Laos, ed. by Gisa Jähnichen, Ministry of Information and Culture, National Library of Laos - FH Oldenburg-Ostfriesland-Wilhelmshaven, Vientiane, S. 4-28, 30-165, 202-220, 303-311, 335-446, (special edition)
• Music from Laos, in: Buddha - transcending space & time, Sydney - Tucson (Arizona): celestial harmonies/ Art Gallery NSW, lc 7869/14215-2, 18-20