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Call for Papers

CONFERENCE "RAP VERSUS SCHLAGER: HÖRST DU DEN UNTERSCHIED?"

14 – 16 May 2025

mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

Organisers: Magdalena Fürnkranz (mdw), Rosa Reitsamer (mdw), Fabian Wolbring (Philipps-Universität Marburg)

Deadline for Abstract Submission: 15 December 2024


Out now and Open Access:

 

POPULISMUS KRITISIEREN. KUNST - POLITIK - GESCHLECHT 

Edited by Evelyn Annuß, Ralf von Appen, Sarah Chaker, Silke Felber, Andrea Glauser, Theresa Kaufmann and Susanne Lettow

Wien · Bielefeld: mdwPress

 

FREE DOWNLOAD

Open access was funded by the mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

 


Out now and Open Access:

 

"PARALLELGESELLSCHAFTEN" IN POPULÄRER MUSIK? ABGRENZUNG - ANNÄHERUNGEN - PERSPEKTIVEN

Edited by Ralf von Appen, Sarah ChakerMichael Huber and Sean Prieke

Bielefeld: transcipt 

 

FREE DOWNLOAD

Open access was funded by the mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

 


Out now and free download:

 

HIGHER MUSIC EDUCATION AND EMPLOYABILITY IN A NEOLIBERAL WORLD

Edited by Rainer Prokop and Rosa Reitsamer

London · New York: Bloomsbury

 

FREE DOWNLOAD @ BLOOMSBURY COLLECTIONS

The ebook editions of this book are available open access on Bloomsbury Collections.

Open access was funded by the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.


Out now:

 

(DEUTSCH-)RAP UND GEWALT – AMBIVALENZEN UND BRÜCHE

Edited by Nazli Hodaie, Gabriele Hofmann, Eva Kimminich, Rosa Reitsamer and Daniel Rellstab

Weinheim · Basel: Beltz Juventa

 

 

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Online Lecture Series

MUSIC, SEXUAL HARASSMENT, RACISM: CONTINUITIES & CHANGE

 

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Organisers: Rainer Prokop and Rosa Reitsamer


 

RECENT MEDIA COVERAGE


Rainer Prokop in an interview with WELT | WELT AM SONNTAG about Schlager and the Amigos, 10 November 2024: "Die Amigos: Das größte Phänomen der deutschen Musik"


Sarah Chaker in an interview with Verena Gruber for the Ö1-Radiokolleg "Straßenmusik. Zwischen Kunst und Lärm: Das harte Pflaster der Straßenmusik", 7-10 October 2024: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4


Rainer Prokop in an interview about Taylor Swift and her fans on Radio Ö1 Morgenjournal, 6 August 2024: "Was steckt hinter dem Hype um Taylor Swift?"


Excerpts from Rainer Prokop's interview with Funke Mediengruppe on Rammstein, male-dominated music industries and the reproduction of social inequalities in the Berliner Kurier, 16 July 2024: "Krasse Interviews: So urteilen Experten über die Fans von Rammstein"


Rainer Prokop in an interview with Funke Mediengruppe on Rammstein, male-dominated music industries and the reproduction of social inequalities, 12 July 2024: "Experte zu Fall Rammstein: Das Problem sind die weißen Männer", published online in 12 German daily newspapers, including the Berliner Morgenpost, Hamburger Abendblatt and Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ)


Rosa Reitsamer in an interview with Oberösterreichische Nachrichten, 3 June 2024:"'L´amour toujours': Ein Liebeslied, plötzlich mit Nazi-Refrain"


Interview contribution by Rainer Prokop for the book: "Row Zero: Gewalt und Machtmissbrauch in der Musikindustrie" by Daniel Drepper (Head of the Research Cooperation between NDR, WDR and Süddeutsche Zeitung) and Lena Kampf (Deputy Head of the Investigative Research Department of the Süddeutsche Zeitung), book publication date: 28 May 2024


 

Graphic Design: Seraina Brugger & Rainer Prokop

Music in Society

 

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