TOPIC-RELATED RESEARCH
Current research activities
A key area of work of the Department is research in the subjects of folk music and ethnomusicology. Our research interacts with teaching and takes a critical perspective of cultural developments in society. The research activities of the Department are carried out on the one hand by its permanent staff, and on the other hand via research projects established by specialist collaborators and students.
Minority-related research activities
Grätzlgesänge - Die Klänge religiöser Minderheiten in Fünfhaus (Isabel Frey & Ioannis Christidis)
Music and Dance of Burgenland Croats (Marko Kölbl)
Music and Dance from Afghanistan in Austria (Marko Kölbl)
Music from Turkey in Austria (Hande Sağlam)
The Aşık Tradition in Sivas (Hande Sağlam)
Audiovisual archive
Fieldwork is the most fundamental research method for folk music research and ethnomusicology. In both disciplines, we often work with orally transmitted music traditions. Field recordings, then, are not only the primary sources for research and constitute a type of institutional memory - in them, the collective memory of many communities is recorded and preserved.
The Department of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology has a vast archive of sound and video materials. Most of these materials have not been published, but are a source for other researches.
Completed research projects focusing on minorities - already digitalized and archived
BIM Bi-musicality and Intercultural Dialogue, a research project of Ursula Hemetek and Hande Sağlam (2009-2012) [Link]
VBG Immigrant Cultures in Vorarlberg: A Musical Field Research Project, a research project of Evelyn Fink-Mennel, Gerlinde Haid, Ursula Hemetek and Hande Sağlam (2009)
EMW Immigrant Music Culture in Vienna, a research project of Sofija Bajrektarević, Ursula Hemetek and Hande Sağlam (2005-2006) [Link]
ITA Tunes and chants of Italian workers who emigrated to Austria, a research project of Barbara Kostner and Paolo Vinati (2004-2006) [Link]
IBK Sound Images of the World in Innsbruck: a Musical Field Research Project (2004)
SBG Fieldwork in Salzburg – 2003, a research project of Gerlinde Haid and Ursula Hemetek (2003) [Link]
SST Styrian Slovenes, three research projects of Ursula Hemetek and Gerlinde Haid (1999-2001)
PR Traditional Music of Minorities, the complete field research of Ursula Hemetek (from 1989 until 2018) [Link]
STZ Wedding in Stinatz/Burgenland, the dissertation project of Ursula Hemetek (1979-1984) [Link]
Research projects - not yet fully archived or digitalized
An overview of the research projects at the Department of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology.