Research Areas
 

Music Traditions of the World

According to the staff‘s research, specifically field research, the department features the research foci on the following music traditions:

» Albania 

» European Folk Music

» Forschungsschwerpunkt Jüdische Musik

» Georgia 

» Croatia 

» Latin America and the Carribean  

» Austrian and Alpine Folk Music 

» Turkey 

» Russia
 

» Ethnomusicological Research On Music And Minorities

» Afghan Diaspora 

» Bosnian Music in Austria 

» Burgenland Croatian Music 

» Research focus on Jewish music

» Roma Music 

» Music from Turkey in Austria 

 

Further research areas

» Multipart Music in Europe 

» Folk Musical Instruments and Instrumental Folk Music  

» Urban Ethnomusicology  

» Transculturality, Migration and Refugee Studies 

» Ethnomusicological Gender Studies 

» Postcolonial Ethnomusicology  

» Methods in Ethnomusicology and Folk Music Research (Fieldwork, Transcription and Analysis) 

» Disciplinary History and Theories in Ethnomusicology and Folk Music Research  

» Folk Music Revival and Revitalization Movements 

» Folk music research / ethnomusicology - music education