Benjamin Sturm, M.A.
Graduate assistant, PhD Student (University of Osnabrück)
Responsibilities
- CMO homepage
- IT related tasks
- MEI
- Musical edition of Uzbek music ("project Ari Babakhanov")
- Recording studio
Fields of interest
- Sociomusicology (especially following Christian Kaden and Pierre Bourdieu, transnational perspectives, socio-semiotic/communicative and praxeological approaches, correlations with ethnomusicology/social history/music history)
- Popular music research (especially voice/vocals, analysis, sound as paradigm, technical aspects, 'global Pop', British popular music since 1990)
- History of musicology (especially during and after National Socialism, actors and structures, methods/theories of historiography, approaches in cultural studies, Communication of musical/scientific knowledge (e.g. on YouTube))
- Music of the 20th/21st century (especially Viennese Schönberg School (Schönberg as teacher/music and writings of Alban Berg), Minimal Music (Philip Glass/Simeon ten Holt), British music (Ralph Vaughn Williams, Benjamin Britten)