Arnd Adje Both

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Arnd Adje Both (* 1971 in Remscheid ) is a German music archaeologist with a research focus on the musical cultures of Mesoamerica .

Life

Arnd Adje Both studied ancient American studies and ethnology at the Free University of Berlin . For his master's thesis "The musical culture of the late post-classical period in Mesoamerica: Perspectives of Music Archeology" (1999) he received the Rudolf Virchow Prize of the Berlin Society for Anthropology , Ethnology and Prehistory . After research stays in Mexico he received his doctorate with a thesis on the musical instruments unearthed at the main temple of the Aztecs . Teaching assignmentsat the Latin America Institute of the Free University of Berlin in the subjects of Ancient American Studies and Social and Cultural Anthropology and at the University of Hamburg in the subject of Mesoamerican Studies . Re-archiving of tape recordings and shellac record collections in the phonogram archive of the Ethnological Museum Berlin and in the sound archive of the Humboldt University in Berlin . Conference manager and head of the editorial office of the International Study Group in Music Archeology at the German Archaeological Institute. Organization of international conferences in Berlin (2004, 2006, 2008) and co-editor of Studies in Music Archeology (2006, 2008) . Since 2007 chair of the Study Group on Music Archeology of the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) and organization of international conferences in New York (2009), Valladolid (2011) and Guatemala (2013). Between 2008 and 2012 scientific curator at the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Mannheim, there supervising the collection of archaeological and ethnographic musical instruments as well as member of the board of trustees of the exhibition MusikWelten. Continuation of various research projects in Mexico. In 2010 co-founder of the EU-funded music archaeological EMAProject, since 2013 exhibition curator of the planned traveling exhibition with employment at the German Archaeological Institute Berlin. End of 2012 founding of Ekho-Verlag, a specialist publisher with a focus on the research area of ​​music archeology, as well as general editor and co-editor of various book series on the subject.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

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  • The musical culture of the Aztecs. In: Communications from the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory. Volume 22, Berlin 2001, pp. 43-48.
  • The Songs of Tlaloc: Interference of Ten Ceramic Duct Flutes, Offering 89 of the Aztec Templo Mayor. In: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Volume 112, No. 5, Melville NY 2002, p. 2367.
  • Aztec Flower-Flutes: On the Symbolic Organization of Sound in Late Postclassic Mesoamerica. In: E. Hickmann, R. Eichmann, AD Kilmer (eds.): Studies on music archeology. Volume III, Rahden / Westf. 2002, pp. 279-289.
  • Shell Trumpets in Mesoamerica: Musicarchaeological Evidence and Living Tradition. In: E. Hickmann, R. Eichmann (Ed.): Studies on music archeology. Volume IV, Rahden / Westf. 2004, pp. 261-277.
  • On the Context of Imitative and Associative Processes in Prehispanic Music. In: E. Hickmann, AA Both, R. Eichmann (eds.): Studies on music archeology. Volume V, Rahden / Westf. 2006, pp. 319-332.
  • La música prehispánica: Sonidos rituales a lo largo de la historia. In: Arqueología Mexicana. Volume XVI, No. 94, México 2008, pp. 30-39.
  • 3D-Computed Tomography and Computational Fluid Dynamics: Perspectives in the Contactless Organological and Acoustical Research of Ancient Musical Instruments. In: AA Both, R. Eichmann, E. Hickmann, L.-Chr. Koch (Ed.): Studies in Music Archeology. Volume VI: Challenges and Objectives in Music Archeology. Rahden / Westf. 2008.
  • Music Archeology: Some Methodological and Theoretical Considerations. In: Yearbook for Traditional Music. Volume 41, 2009, pp. 1-11.
  • Music, Song and Dance among the Aztecs: A Short Introduction. In: Ian Mursell: Aztecs at Mexicolore. January 2009.
  • Las trompetas de caracol marino de Teotihuacan. In: L. Suárez Diez, A. Velázquez Castro (eds.): Ecos del pasado: Los moluscos arqueológicos de México. México 2010, pp. 183-196.
  • Music-Archaeological Research on Pre-Columbian Music Cultures, 1880-1920. In: Sam Mirelman (Ed.): The Historiography of Music in Global Perspective. New York 2010, pp. 85-114.
  • Review: Mathew G. Looper: To be like Gods: Dance in Ancient Maya Civilization. In: Yearbook for Traditional Music. Volume 42, 2010.
  • with Adrián Velázquez Castro: The Sound of the Earth: Aztec Shell Rattles. In: R. Eichmann, Ellen Hickmann, L.-Chr. Koch (Ed.): Studies in Music Archeology. Volume VII: Musical Perceptions - Past and Present. Rahden / Westf. 2010, pp. 243-264.
  • with Paul F. Healy, Carrie L. Dennett, Mary Hill Harris: A Musical Nature: Pre-Columbian Ceramic Flutes of Northeast Honduras. In: R. Eichmann, Ellen Hickmann, L.-Chr. Koch (Ed.): Studies in Music Archeology. Volume VII: Musical Perceptions - Past and Present. Rahden / Westf. 2010, pp. 189-212.
  • The feathered snail horn and the great goddess in Teotihuacan. In: Amerindian Research. Volume 5/3, 2010, No. 17, pp. 157-160.
  • Song of the gods. In: H. Wiegand, A. Wieczorek, C. Braun, M. Tellenbach (eds.): Musik-Welten. Mannheim history sheets. Special publication 3, Heidelberg 2011, pp. 25–32.
  • Nature in sound: whistling vessels from ancient America. In: H. Wiegand, A. Wieczorek, C. Braun, M. Tellenbach (eds.): Musik-Welten. Mannheim history sheets. Special publication 3, Heidelberg 2011, pp. 65–76.
  • El viento y la musica en Xochicalco. In: el tlacuache. No. 472, Suplemento Cultural de La Jornada, Morelos / Delegación INAH Morelos, Junio ​​19, 2011, pp. 2-4.

Co-editorships

  • with Ellen Hickmann, Ricardo Eichmann: Studies in Music Archeology. Volume V: Music Archeology in Contexts, Papers from the 4th Symposium of the International Study Group on Music Archeology at Michaelstein Monastery, September 19–26, 2004. Rahden / Westf. 2006.
  • with Ricardo Eichmann, Ellen Hickmann, Lars-Christian Koch: Studies in Music Archeology. Volume VI: Challenges and Objectives in Music Archeology, Papers from the 5th Symposium of the International Study Group on Music Archeology at the Ethnological Museum Berlin, September 19-23, 2006. Rahden / Westf. 2008.
  • with Max Peter Baumann, Jonathan P. Stock, Julia LJ Sanchez: The world of Music. Volume 49, No. 2, 2007: Music Archeology: Mesoamerica, Papers from the 1st meeting of the Music Archeology Study Group of the ICTM, Los Angeles, April 25-27, 2003.

Editorships

  • Matthias Stöckli, Arnd Adje Both (eds.); Arnd Adje Both (Ed. Of the series): Flower World - Music Archeology of the Americas / Mundo Florido - Arqueomusicología de las Americas. Volume 1 and 2, Ekho Verlag, Berlin 2012 and 2013.
  • Raquel Himénez, Rupert Till, Mark Howell (Eds.); Arnd Adje Both (editor of the series): Music & Ritual: Bridging Material & Living Cultures. Ekho Verlag, Berlin 2013.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Aerófonos Mexicas", 2005  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.diss.fu-berlin.de  
  2. ↑ University of Hamburg, Mesoamerican Studies ( Memento of the original from June 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-hamburg.de
  3. ^ Humboldt University Berlin
  4. ↑ ISGMA
  5. ↑ dainst.org ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dainst.org
  6. ↑ musicarchaeology.org ( Memento of the original from April 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musicarchaeology.org
  7. ↑ Exhibition MusikWelten ( Memento of the original from October 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rem-mannheim.de
  8. ↑ Research projects in Mexico ( Memento of the original from April 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mixcoacalli.com
  9. ↑ European Music Archeology Project (EMAP)
  10. ↑ Ekho Publishing
personal data
SURNAME Both, Arnd Adje
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Remscheid