Birgit Abels

Birgit Abels (* 1980 in Witten ) is a German musicologist and university professor at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen .

Academic biography

Birgit Abels studied musicology, Arabic and Islamic studies in Bochum and London from 1999 to 2004 . Her doctorate, funded by the German National Academic Foundation , took place in 2007 with a thesis on the music of Palau . From 2006-2007 she worked for the Ministry of Culture and Communication of the Republic of Palau ; From 2007–2011 she worked at the International Institute for Asian Studies in Leiden and at the University of Amsterdam . In 2011 she was appointed full professor for ethnomusicology at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. She conducted fieldwork in Palau (2004, 2005–2007), North India (2003) and Malaysia (2008, 2009, 2010). Birgit Abels is editor-in-chief of the world of music magazine .

The Harmonium in North India. Musical and Social Aspects of an 'Imported' Musical Instrument, Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Ltd .: New Delhi 2010.
Sounds of Articulating Identity. Tradition and Transition in the Music of Palau, Micronesia. Logos Publishers: Berlin 2008. (Awarded the ICAS Book Prize (PhD) 2009)
(Ed.) Austronesian Soundscapes. Performing Arts in Oceania & Southeast Asia. IIAS series, Amsterdam University Press 2011.
(Ed.) From the right pitch of organs and other instruments. Festschrift for Christian Ahrens' 60th birthday. Heinrich-Schütz-Haus: Bad Köstritz 2003 (= Köstritzer writings 2).