Vita
Benjamin Sturm studied musicology at the University of Münster and graduated in 2022 with the thesis 'Outline of a theory of distinctive signs. A confrontational dialogue between Christian Kaden, Pierre Bourdieu and the Viennese Schoenberg School'. Since 2023 he has been a doctoral student at the University of Osnabrück (working title of the doctoral thesis: ‘The Bristol Sound as a system of distinctive signs. A music-sociological theory for analyzing social processes in popular music’, supervised by Prof. Dr. Dietrich Helms and Prof. Dr. Ralf Martin Jäger). Since 2015 he has been working in the CMO project/at the Professorship of Ethnomusicology at the University of Münster, as a student/graduate research assistant and since March 2025 as research assistant to Prof. Jäger. From December 2016 to August 2021 he was a member of the board of the Dachverband der Studierenden der Musikwissenschaft (DVSM, Society for Students in Musicology), from January 2021 as president. Since November 2024 h has been a member of the advisory board of the Gesellschaft für Popularmusikforschung (GfPm, Society for Popular Music Research).
Memberships:
- German Society for Popular Music Studies (Gesellschaft für Popularmusikforschung, GfPm)
- Society for Students in Musicology (Dachverband der Studierenden der Musikwissenschaft, DVSM)
- British Forum for Ethnomusicology (BFE)
- IASPM-DACH
- Research-Group Music Sociology and Social History of Music within the German Musicological Society