Emma Cäcilia Schrott, BA MSt
Pre-Doctoral Researcher – ERC project GOING VIRAL. Music and Emotions during Pandemics (1679-1919)
Zimmer KR EG 10
Kreuzherrengasse 1, A-1040 Wien
Bio
Emma Schrott is a PhD candidate at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna as part of the ERC funded interdisciplinary research project “GOING VIRAL. Music and Emotions during Pandemics (1679-1919)”. She has studied musicology and ethnomusicology at the University of Vienna, Sorbonne Université and the University of Oxford, where she graduated with distinction in 2023 as a St Hugh’s College scholarship recipient. Her research has focused on the multifaceted roles that music plays in the emotional and embodied responses of people during times of crises, from exploring sonic affects on TikTok aimed at political mobilization during COVID-19, to investigating socio-cultural dynamics of communal electronic dance music practices within a resistance movement in wartime Ukraine. Additionally, Emma has worked in research at the New York-based Leo Baeck Institute, conducting oral history interviews and navigating historical narratives surrounding Austrian-Jewish emigration to North America. As a PhD student at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna under the supervision of Professor Marie Louise Herzfeld-Schild, her doctoral thesis provisionally titled “Emotional Echoes: Music and Emotions During the Spanish Flu Pandemic in Vienna (1918-1919)“ delves into sound and music related dimensions of emotional practices and the transformation of musicking throughout the trajectory of the Spanish Influenza in Vienna.
Research Interests
- social and cultural study of music
- history of emotions and senses
- sound studies and affect studies
- music in times of crises (conflict, war, disease)
- digital music cultures and ethnography
Publications
* forthcoming: Emma C. Schrott, Political Performances: TikTok’s Sonic Influence on Affective Activist Expression, “TikTok-Music-Cultures: Perspectives on the Study of Musicking Practices On and Through TikTok”, special issue spring/summer 2024, Musicologica Austriaca: Journal for Austrian Music Studies.
* peer-reviewed and open access
Talks, Panels, Conferences
international symposium “Musicology in Times of Trouble: Musik und Wissenschaft in Zeiten von Krankheit, Krieg und Krisen”: “Clean-up Raves – Gemeinschaftliche Musikpraktiken im ukrainischen Kriegskontext“, University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar, March 31-April 2, 2023.
international symposium “TikTok–Music–Cultures: Perspectives on the Study of Musicking Practices On & Through TikTok” (co-organiser, programme committee member): “Performing Politics on TikTok: Activism without Activists”, University of Vienna, May 26-29, 2022.
roundtable “TikToking Music and Dance: (Digitale) Künstler*innen-Persönlichkeiten auf TikTok”; co-organised with Juan Bermúdez ad Ylva Hintersteiner, Institute of Musicology, University of Vienna, May 26, 2022.
roundtable “Politische Performances: Digitaler Videoaktivismus auf TikTok”; moderated and co-organised with Juan Bermúdez and Ylva Hintersteiner, Institute of Musicology, University of Vienna, May 12, 2022.
roundtable “Digitale Intersektionalität: Performing Gender, Klasse und Race auf und durch TikTok”, co-organised with Juan Bermúdez and Ylva Hintersteiner, Institute of Musicology, University of Vienna, May 5, 2022.