Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien

Education

• 2008 – 2013 Heidelberg University 
  PhD in Musicology/Ethnomusicology (July 2013)
  Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe: Shifting Asymmetries in a Global Context.” Dissertation: “Sounding out K-pop: Globalization, Asymmetries, and Popular Music in South Korea.”
• 1996 – 2003 University of Cologne
  MA in Musicology/Ethnomusicology, Philosophy, and Art History  
  Thesis: “Uninterested Pleasure in Pop Music? Considering the Aesthetic Term in Scientific Discourse about Popular Music.” [in German]

Professional Experience

• since Dec. 2024 Professor of Ethnomusicology, Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. Director of PhD Program.
• 2023 – 2024 Interim Professor of Ethnomusicology, Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media
• 2020 - 2024 Director of the Center for World Music and Lecturer in Ethnomusicology, University of Hildesheim (incl. Master program “musik.welt – Cultural Diversity in Music Education”). 
• 2016 – 2020 Managing Director of the Center for World Music and Lecturer in Ethnomusicology, University of Hildesheim.
• 2016 Visiting Lecturer in Cultural Musicology, University of Göttingen; Adjunct Lecturer in Korean Studies, University of Frankfurt/Main.
• 2013 – 2016 Postdoctoral Teaching and Research Assistant, Musicology Dpt., Ethnomusicology—Study Center for World Music, Hanover University of Music, Drama, and Media.
• 2013 Independent Researcher, research project “K-Pop on the Global Platform. European Audience Reception and Contexts,” funded by the South Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. 
• 2008 – 2012 Research Assistant, Karl-Jaspers-Center, Heidelberg University
  Project “Creative Dissonances: Music in a Global Context” 
• 2009 – 2010 Visiting Fellow, Institute for East Asian Studies, Sungkonghoe University, Seoul.
  Field work in South Korea.
• 2008 Teaching and Research Assistant, Musicology Dpt., Ethnomusicology, University of Cologne.
• 2006 – 2008 Research Assistant, Dpt. of Ethnomusicology, Media-Technology, Berlin Phonogram-Archiv, Ethnological Museum Berlin. EU Project DISMARC–Discovering Music Archives.
• 2004 – 2006 Freelance radio production and editorial assistant, Westdeutscher Rundfunk Cologne

Grants and Fellowships 

• 2023 – 2027 BMFTR “KOSTIMA Counterhegemonic voices in the music archive”, in coop. with Mainz University and Weltkulturen museum Frankfurt a. M.
• 2023 – 2026 VolkswagenFoundation, “The Fonoteka of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences‘ Institute for Art Studies”, in coop. with Phonogramm Archives in Vienna and in Tashkent. 
• 2022 DAAD Higher Education Dialogue with the Muslim World: “The Sound of Cultural Change,” in coop. with University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran.
• 2016–2025 DAAD SDG Graduate School “Performing Sustainability: Cultures and Development in West Africa”, in coop. with University of Cape Coast, Ghana, and University of Maiduguri, Nigeria.
• 2017–2020 BMBF “Music as a knowledge repository in museum practice: possibilities and challenges of collection management and curating an ethnomusicological university collection“.
• 2013 Research fellowship by the South Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
• 2009 – 2011 DFG travel grants to Daejeon, Honolulu, Hong Kong. DAAD travel grant to Hong Kong.
• 2008 – 2011 PhD scholarship at the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries,” Heidelberg University.

• German Musicological Society (GfM), Speaker of the Study Group “Ethnomusicology and Comparative Musicology” (since 2018).
• Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), Association for Korean Music Research. Member-at-Large.
• International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM), Study Group “Music of East Asia”.
• World Association for Hallyu Studies (WAHS), German Regional Director (2013–2015).
• Inter-Asia Popular Music Studies (IAPMS).

• 2024. Globalization and Popular Music: Sounding Out K-Pop (Chinese transl.). 韩国流行音乐 (西方韩国研究丛书), K-Pop 背后的故事, 可以比它本身更精彩. 王丹丹 译出版社: 江苏人民出版社, translated by Wang Dandan, Nanjing: Jiangsu People’s Publishing House.
• 2024. Music, Remembering and Cultural Memory (co-edited with C. Gruber), Hildesheim: University Press.
• 2023. „Die Fachgruppe ‚Musikethnologie und vergleichende Musikwissenschaft‘ in der GfM. Stationen – Positionen – Perspektiven“ (with C. Gruber), in: Die Musikforschung – Themenheft 75 Jahre „Die Musikforschung“, 281–288.
• 2022. “Buried in the Colonial Graveyard? Indigenous Sound Ontologies, Repatriation and the Ethics of Curating Ethnographic Sounds.” In: Postcolonial Repercussions: Auditory Culture between Signification and the New Ontology, edited by A. Schoon and J. Ismaiel-Wendt, 133–152. Bielefeld: transcript.
• 2021. „Whose Voice(s)? Musikethnologische Perspektiven auf das Phänomen ‚Stimme‘“ (with R. Vogels). In Stimmen – Körper – Medien. Gesang im 20. Und 21. Jahrhundert, edited by N. Grosch/T. Seedorf, Laaber: Laaber.
• 2020. ed. ‘Diggin‘ Up Music‘: Musikethnologie als Baustelle. Festschrift für Raimund Vogels zum 65. Geburtstag, (co-edited with K. Klenke and J. Mendívil), Hildesheim: Olms.
• 2017. “K-Pop Music and Transnationalism”, in: Routledge Handbook of Korean Culture and Society, edited by Youna Kim, 283–296. London and New York: Routledge.
• since 2016. Book series. Center for World Music – Studies in Music (co-edited w. R. Vogels), Hildesheim: Olms.
• 2015. Globalization and Popular Music in South Korea: Sounding Out K-Pop. New York: Routledge.
• 2007. Populäre Musik und Ästhetik. Die historisch-philosophische Rekonstruktion einer Geringschätzung. Bielefeld: transcript.