IMS – DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC SOCIOLOGY

MDW – UNIVERSITY OF MUSIC AND PERFORMING ARTS VIENNA

Dear colleagues and friends,

we are happy to share some recent news with you and wish you happy holidays and a prosperous New Year!

With best wishes,

Michael Huber and Golan Gur

Head and Deputy Head of the Department

NEWS | DECEMBER 2023

OVERVIEW

NEW HEAD AT THE DEPARTMENT

NEW MASTER: MUSIC IN SOCIETY

AWARDS

EVENTS

MEDIA

STAFF NEWS

NEW HEAD AT THE DEPARTMENT

The mdw Rectorate has appointed Michael Huber as head and Golan Gur  as deputy head of the Department of Music Sociology, effective 1 October 2023 for three years.

The department thanks Rosa Reitsamer for her leadership as department head during the last three years.

NEW MASTER: MUSIC IN SOCIETY

Starting in fall of 2024 at the mdw, the new scientific and artistic master MUSIC IN SOCIETY offers students the opportunity to acquire comprehensive musical knowledge and competencies from sociological, cultural, economic and gender-specific perspectives over four semesters. It combines theories and approaches from the sociology of music, art and culture, as well as the fields of cultural studies, cultural institutions studies and gender studies, culminating with a qualification for independent empirical research and a deepening of practical musical skills in one of the following areas: Popular Music, Music Making in Social Contexts, Traditional Musics. The particular focus is on scientific and artistic practices in music and performing arts, taking into account categories of social difference and inequalities as well as approaches to counteracting social inequalities in music-cultural worlds. The master provides the necessary qualification for embarking on doctoral studies, especially in the sociology of music and art, cultural institutions studies, gender studies and cultural studies.

Further information: www.musicinsociety.net

AWARDS

ARS DOCENDI STATE AWARD FOR SARAH CHAKER

Sarah Chaker received the Ars Docendi Austrian State Award for excellent teaching in higher education for her seminar “Researching Street Music Autoethnographically” in September 2023!

Further information: BMBWF  and Atlas der guten Lehre

MDW YOUNG RESEARCH AWARD 2023

On 27 September 2023, the mdw awarded the first ever “mdw young research award” . Two out of the five winners of this award for pre-scientific papers related to music, which were written by the students to fulfil the requirements of the Austrian secondary school leaving certificate (“Matura”) 2023, wrote papers with a music sociological focus. These two papers were reviewed and recommended for the award by IMS members.

Athina Tschurtschenthaler: Musical Socialisation: Individual – Sociological – Cultural Policy

Abstract (German): Click here

Celina Zier: Educational Practice and Career Opportunities of Musical Theater Performers

Abstract (German): Click here

EVENTS

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

HOME, WORK AND MUSIC: MUSICAL PRACTICES IN DOMESTIC SPACES

22 – 23 February 2024

mdw, Fanny Hensel-Hall and online

Registration: musiksoziologie@mdw.ac.at

Further information: Click here

CONFERENCE REVIEW

REVIEW OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE “TURNING SOCIAL – ON THE SOCIAL-TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF MUSIC MEDIATION”

15 – 16 June 2023

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Read an extensive review by Monika Rak and Werner Rohrer of the joint conference “Turning Social”, organised by Axel Petri-Preis (Department of Music Education Research, Music Didactics and Elementary Music Education – IMP) and Sarah Chaker (IMS): Click here

MEDIA

Rainer Prokop in conversation with RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland on ‘Sex, Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll’, patriarchal power structures and the groupie phenomenon, 26.7.2023: “Mick Jagger wird 80: Sind Sex, Drugs und Rock 'n' Roll noch zeitgemäß?”

TV Diary @ Der Standard, 25.7.2023: “Soziologe zu Rammstein in der 'ZIB 3': 'Der Skandal ist nicht vorbei'”  – Rainer Prokop in a 'ZIB 3' interview with Christiane Wassertheurer

STAFF NEWS

Golan Gur is our new post-doc lecturer at the department since July 2023.