Dietmar Elflein

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Dietmar Elflein (* 1964 ) is a German musicologist who teaches at the TU Braunschweig at the Institute for Music and its Education and Music Education. He gained fame with his writings on popular music, especially hip-hop and metal . In addition to his teaching activities, he works as a sound engineer and plays in various bands.

Life

After graduating from the Ernestinum Coburg in 1983 , Elflein began studying ethnology at the University of Bayreuth . In 1984 he moved to the Free University of Berlin , where he studied comparative musicology and philosophy with Josef Kuckertz , Georg Elwert and Fritz Haug . He graduated in 1991 with a master's degree , the title of his thesis Rock Music in a Small Town - a case study . Elflein began to work as a sound engineer and played in various bands. In 2006 he began his doctorate at the TU Braunschweig, which he completed in 2009. After a teaching position at the University of Osnabrück on the history of rock music, he became a research assistant at the Department of Music and Music Education at the TU Braunschweig in 2010. He also teaches at the University of Popular Arts in Berlin , at the University of Music and Dance in Cologne and at the Baden-Württemberg Pop Academy in Mannheim . He has also been a member of the scientific advisory board of the study group for popular music since 2009 and writes articles for the song dictionary of the German Folk Song Archive .

Act

His doctoral thesis Schwermetallanalysen - On the musical language of heavy metal is considered to be trend-setting in the musicological analysis of the music of heavy metal . The research results he presented brought him the reputation of a music expert in the field of rock music and metal and he was consulted by numerous media such as DRadio Wissen , Zeit Online , or the taz .

selected Writings

Essays
  • From the new German spoken word to oriental hip-hop. In: From the New World, Forays through 20th Century American Music. Edited by Annette Kreutziger-Herr and Manfred Strack. Hamburg: Lit 1997. pp. 283-99.
  • The life of a G - current cutting patterns in German hip hop in: Cut and Paste - cutting patterns for contemporary popular music (contributions to popular music research 34) Ed. By Dietrich Helms and Thomas Phleps . Bielefeld: transcript 2006, S: 11-30
  • Aggro Berlin - 100% German Hip Hop in: Journal der Jugendkulturen 12, Berlin 2007, pp. 11–23
  • Always the same classics - heavy metal and the traditional stream. In: No Time For Losers - Charts, Lists and Other Canonizations in Popular Music (Contributions to Popular Music Research 36) Ed. By Dietrich Helms and Thomas Phleps. Bielefeld: transcript 2007, pp. 127-144
  • “The virtuoso control of (powerless) power. Thoughts on the musical aesthetics of heavy metal. ”In: Metal Matters. Heavy metal as culture and world. Media 'Worlds series. Braunschweiger Schriften zur Medienkultur, Vol. 15. Ed. By Rolf F. Nohr and Herbert Schwaab. Münster u. a .: Lit 2011, pp. 169-182
Monographs
  • Heavy metal analysis. On the musical language of heavy metal. Bielefeld: transcript, 2010

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Frank Schäfer: A consciously staged counter-world. Music expert Elflein on heavy metal. the daily newspaper , April 1, 2011, accessed on July 30, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Not all metal is the same ( Memento of the original from November 11, 2012 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. , DRadio Wissen, broadcast on June 21, 2011.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / Wissen.dradio.de
  3. ↑ Frank Schäfer: Heavy Metal Research. You let off steam. Zeit Online, February 17, 2011, accessed July 30, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Elflein, Dietmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1964