Jan Hemming

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Jan Hemming (* 1967 in Darmstadt ) is a German musicologist and professor at the University of Kassel .

biography

Hemming studied musicology, philosophy and physics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and at the TU Berlin from 1989 to 1995. After completing his studies, he was a research assistant at the University of Bremen from 1997 to 2000 , where he worked in the context of the backdoor project obtained his doctorate from Günter Kleinen in 2000 on the subject of "Talent and Self-Concept - A Qualitative Study among Semi-Professional Musicians in Rock and Pop". From 2000 to 2005 he was assistant for systematic musicology at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . Hemming has been Professor of Systematic Musicology at the University of Kassel since 2005. Hemming's work focuses on music psychology and music sociology , pop music research, media and technology, musical aesthetics of the 20th and 21st centuries. Century, cultural and gender studies and political orientation of musicology.

Teaching and Research

Music psychology and sociology

Hemming uses a wide range of methods. Examples of the use of qualitative empirical methods are developmental courses on the way to becoming a semi-professional musician in rock and pop (dissertation), the "phenomenology of the catchy tune" or experiencing one's own concert. Examples of the use of quantitative empirical methods are research on the 'Blue Note' or the replication of a study by Holbrook & Schindler on the development of musical preferences over the life course.

Cultural and Gender Studies

Hemming is co-editor of an anthology on gender studies and music. In this context, he deals with B. with the relationship between music and body. In terms of cultural studies, Hemming is mainly characterized by the semiotic approach and the associated pioneering work of Philip Tagg , which enables a precise analysis of the relationship between the properties and structure of cultural objects and the associated meanings.

Popular music research

In popular music research, sociological, culturally critical and semiotic approaches are combined. At the same time, Hemming endeavors to establish empirical methods in popular music research in addition to cultural theoretical approaches.

Media and technology

At the age of 16, Hemming published his first articles in the computer magazine "Genie Data". B. for programming in machine language. His affinity for computers and technology has a constant influence on research and teaching. As early as 1999, Hemming held an online seminar (simultaneously at three university locations). The continuous response digital interface (e.g. for the efficiency of different hearing strategies) or self-made nasal microphones (for individual intonation measurement in vocal ensembles) are used in research. In addition, Hemming reflects in various essays on the influence of digital technologies on the music industry, most recently on the subject of blockchain .

Musical aesthetics of the 20th / 21st Century

A first examination of the aesthetics of contemporary art music took place in Hemming's master's thesis on Brian Ferneyhough . Then he dealt, for example, with the potential of the term "musical experience". Together with the pianist and composer Andre von Melöchin, he coined the term "improv composition". Hemming's approaches also include sound studies, for example at Christmas markets, and the critical discussion of music in public spaces.

Political orientation of musicology

Together with Wolfgang Marx and Brigitte Markuse, Hemming criticized the methodologically conservative orientation of musicology and its almost sole focus on art music in the year 2000 in the sample study Music historiography as empirical research. He is also institutionally involved through the organization of national and international conferences, as spokesman for the systematic musicology department (2008–2016) or as an elected member of the advisory board of the Society for Music Research .

Publications

List of publications by Jan Hemming

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hemming, Jan (2009): On the phenomenology of the 'catchy tune'. In: Auhagen, Wolfgang, Bullerjahn, Claudia & Höge, Holger (eds.): Music Psychology - Musical Memory and Musical Learning (pp. 184–207). Göttingen: Hogrefe (= yearbook of the German Society for Music Psychology; 20).
  2. ↑ Hemming, Jan; Kraume-Flügel, Lars & Sörensen, Simone (2014): Experiencing your own concert. Physiological, psychological and sociological aspects of artistic work on and behind the stage. Die Musikforschung, 67 (4), pp. 363–383.
  3. ↑ http://hemming.uni-kassel.de/images/Hemming_et_al_2018_blue_note.pdf
  4. ↑ Hemming, Jan (2013): Is there a peak in popular music preference at a certain song-specific age? - A replication of Holbrook & Schindler's 1989 study. Musicae Scientiae (Special Issue: Replication studies in music psychology), 17 (3), pp. 291-302; also available at: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hebis:34-2014121646791 [12/16/2014].
  5. ↑ Fragner, Stefan; Hemming, Jan & Kutschke, Beate (Eds.) (1998): Gender Studies & Music. Gender roles and their importance for musicology. Regensburg: ConBrio.
  6. ↑ Hemming, Jan (2000): Music and Body - Performative Problem Solving Strategies. In: Hoffmann, Freia, Bowers, Jane & Heckmann, Ruth (eds.): Images of women and men in music: Festschrift for Eva Rieger on her 60th birthday (pp. 181–197). Oldenburg: UP.
  7. ↑ Hemming, Jan (2016): Methods of Researching Popular Music. Wiesbaden u. a .: Springer VS (= systematic musicology)
  8. ^ Hemming, Jan (1983): Input / output in machine language. Genie Data, 1 (5), pp. 41-44
  9. ^ Hemming, Jan (2006): "Multiparadigmatic Music". Inaugural lecture held on November 8, 2006 at the University of Kassel. Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305329763_Multiparadigmatische_Musik [10/22/2018].
  10. ↑ Fischinger, Timo & Hemming, Jan (2011): How do I sing in a choir? - Individual intonation and timing measurements in vocal ensembles. In: Greuel, Thomas, Kranefeld, Ulrike & Szczepaniak, Elke (eds.): Singing and learning (pp. 45–58). Aachen: Shaker (= music in discourse; 24).
  11. ↑ Hemming, Jan (2018): Perspectives in music arising out of blockchain technology and its corresponding research strategies. Etnomüzikoloji Dergisi / Ethnomusicology Journal. Special Issue "Music and Politics", 1 (2), pp. 97-126.
  12. ↑ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305331238_Das_dritte_Streichquartett_von_Brian_Ferneyhough_Voraussetzung towards_oder_Geschichtsbeispiel
  13. ↑ Hemming, Jan (2013): "Are you experienced?": Jimi Hendrix and the potential of the concept of aesthetic experience. In: Busch, Veronika, Schlemmer, Kathrin & Wöllner, Clemens (Ed.): Perception - Knowledge - Mediation. Musicological bridging (commemorative publication for Wolfgang Auhagen on his sixtieth birthday) (pp. 53–66). Hildesheim: Olms.
  14. ↑ Melöchin, Andre von & Hemming, Jan (2014): Improkomposition - Book I of imaginary geometry for use in piano improvisation. Kassel: Kassel University Press (= disenchantment of music; 1)
  15. ^ Neubauer, Hendrik & Hemming, Jan (2017): Perception and Effect of Christmas Music in Public Space. Die Musikforschung, 70 (4), pp. 322–335.
  16. ↑ Marx, Wolfgang; Hemming, Jan & Markuse, Brigitte (2000): The study of musicology in Germany. A statistical analysis of the course offer and subject structure. Die Musikforschung, 53 (4), pp. 366–388.
  17. ↑ Hemming, Jan (2016): Introduction to the symposium "INTRAdisciplinary approaches in music research". In: Auhagen, Wolfgang & Hirschmann, Wolfgang (eds.): Contributions to the annual conference of the Society for Music Research Halle / Saale 2015 - "Musicology: the sub-disciplines in dialogue" (pp. 1–4). Mainz: Schott Campus; also available at: http://schott-campus.com/intradisziplinaere-ansaetze-der-musikforschung/ [14.9.2016].
  18. ↑ Hemming, Jan (2015): Between empiricism and theory: writing music history from the perspective of a systematist. In: Calella, Michele & Urbanek, Nikolaus (ed.): Musikhistoriographie (n) (pp. 181–209). Vienna: Hollitzer.
personal data
SURNAME Hemming, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt