Das BMBF-Forschungsprojekt „Kontrahegemoniale Stimmen in Musikarchiven (KOSTIMA): Politische Lesarten, Kontextualisierungen, Gegenwartsbezüge“ erschließt verschiedene Archivbestände mit Fokus auf kontra-hegemonialen Botschaften.
The dissertation project is about the cultural and political history of popular protest music in Turkey. It specifically looks at the cultural and political conjunctures that emerged in certain periods (1960s-1980s) and, most importantly, at the events that lead to the re-emergence of Anatolian Rock music in Turkey since 2010.
Jazz in Madagascar - The project explores the importance of jazz in shaping Malagasy society. It takes a look at bands and musicians, historical and current stylistic developments, as well as characteristic performance venues and funding practices of Malagasy jazz.
This PhD project explores the ways in which the Brazilian music and dance genre Forró offers a space for imaginations that engender certain ways of being and identity formation. With a focus on nature and nostalgia, a special interested lies on the deeper connections between the experience of this music and particular lifestyles in northeastern Brazil.
The dissertation project aims to examine American conservatism from a culture-oriented perspective.Following Arlie Hochschild (2016), American conservatism is thereby understood as a general way of life in which a nature-oriented lifestyle and, related to this, individual freedom are central elements.
Thinking of music in Africa, the persisting images are those of either (neo-) traditional African styles or “Africanized” versions of Western sounds. It is the central aim of this project to challenge this view and rethink the nature of popular music in Africa by exploring the striking role of rock and heavy metal music in Madagascar’s capital Antananarivo.
The kora, a bridge harp of the Manding peoples of West Africa is an instrument of both, backward-looking and affirmative utopias. The musicians playing the kora, called jali or griots, sing about past empires, historical rulers and contemporary leaders.
Considering musical and non-musical activities in constant interaction, the project follows various actors of the Lagos recording industry to studio sessions, concerts and promotional activities, examining the practices of contemporary artistes in particular.
The aim of this project is to empirically study how poetic forms and practices may contribute to the construction of lifeworlds within the urban contexts of Tanzania and Masagascar. We start with the assumption that poetic forms of engaging with the world fundamentally and systematically, differ from other more explicit forms of communication, due to their unique combination of form and content.
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